REPORTS OF CASES. 
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REPORTS OF CASES. 
FRACTURE OF THE FIRST PHALARX. 
By W. G. Schmidt, P.V.S. 
The two cases reported below were quite interesting to me, and 
believing they may prove so to some of the readers of the Review, 
I beg to report them: 
Case No. 1.—On the 23d of May last I was called at 1 p. m., 
to see a grey gelding, the property of Mr. Peter Scholl, which had 
been injured at the corner of Market and Broad Streets, by the 
passing of a wagon over the fetlock articulation. I found the 
animal standing on three legs, with the left fore extremity raised 
from the ground, and on examination, found great pain on pres¬ 
sure, and by manipulation obtained a distinct cepitus; diagnosis, 
oblique fracture of the first phalanx. Being unable to procure 
an ambulance, and the animal being old, I advised the owner to 
have it destroyed, which I believe was done. 
Case No. 2.—On August 24th I was called to see a grey mare 
seven years old, owned by Mr. Fountain, on South Orange Avenue, 
which had been injured on the previous day. History—while 
being driven before a cart, the animal had stumbled, fallen, and 
the wheel of the cart had passed over the left hind leg at the fet¬ 
lock. I found the animal standing in the barn yard, unable to put 
the injured extremity to the ground. On pressing the injured part, 
the patient suffered great pain, and by manipulating I obtained 
crepitation, and made a diagnosis of fracture of the os suffraginis. 
I had the patient removed to the barn and put in slings, and 
after enveloping the part in oakum, applied a plaster-of-paris 
bandage in the usual way. On visiting my patient on the 14th of 
September, I found that the dressing had been slightly displaced, 
and partly removed it, at once reapplying it, the process of union 
apparently going on satisfactorily. 
On the 28th of September, as the owner was averse to incurring 
further expense, unless there was a possibility of reunion taking 
