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SAMUEL S. FIELD. 
at the carpus and fetlock, with the toe about one foot from the ground. 
On making an examination of the limb, found a slight abrasion of the 
skin at the posterior portion of the Ulna, and on handling the parts 
found a complete fracture of the olecranon. I advised the owner to 
have the animal destroyed, which he did. On making a post mortem 
examination found that the ulna was broken in an antero-posterior direc¬ 
tion, near the articular surface of the radius, destroying the sigmoid 
notch. The superior portion of the ulna or olecranon was also broken 
in three pieces. The peculiar position in which I found her standing, 
I concluded was due to the loss of power of the extensor muscles that 
attach to the superior portion of the olecranon there by allowing full 
action of the flexors of the radius. There was also ulceration on the 
articular surface of the radius. 
Samuel S. Field, 
Student to A'merican Veterinary College , 
245 E. 24th St., City. 
Boston, August 24, 1877. 
To the Editors of the American Veterinary Review : 
Gentlemen : With your permission I will describe two recent 
attacks of illness in a young mare, the property of M. McBarron, Esq., 
of this city. On the 7th of June last I was first called to her at the 
stable of Messrs. Warner & Richardson, and informed by the owner 
that she had been suffering for about three weeks from a kind of dis¬ 
temper. Her condition was then as follows : feverish, pulse fifty-six, 
breath hot, sharp cough, respirations rough and accelerated, nostrils 
swollen and tender, septum covered with blisters, copious discharge from 
nostuls of mucus streaked with blood, mouth hot, intermaxillary glands 
hard, but not adherent to the jaw, parotids hot and swollen, coat 
staring, very weak over loins, hind legs swollen, and occasionally eject¬ 
ing a whitish mucus from vagina. She was inclined to eat a little, and 
anxious to drink, but did so with difficulty owing partly to soreness of 
throat. I will not trouble you with the treatment, but merely say that 
she received excellent care, and in ten days most of the feverishness 
and soreness of throat had passed off. 
4 he condition of the intermaxillary glands and nostrils—especial¬ 
ly the discharge—still continued, and in addition to this the off hock 
became greatly enlarged from hydrops articuli, probably from a prac¬ 
tice she had of thumping it against the stall. As the circulation in the 
swollen limb became impaired, she was now given daily exercise grad- 
