vestigating for morbus coxarius, let the observer
first examine the lame animal by scanning critically the outlines of the
joint and the region adjacent for any difference of size or disturbance
of symmetry in the parts, any prominence or rotundity, and on both
sides. The lame side will probably be warmer, more developed, and
fuller, both to the touch and to the eye. Let him then grasp the lower
part of the leg (as he would in examining a case of shoulder lameness)
and endeavor to produce excessive passive motion. This will probably
cause pain when the leg is made to assume a given position. Let him push
the thigh forcibly against the hip bone, and the contact will again
probably cause a manifestation of pain. If the horse is trotted, the
limited action of the hip joint proper and the excessive dropping and
rising of the hip of the opposite side will be easily recognized.
Usually the animal does not extend the foot so far as customarily and
picks it up much sooner.

The abductive or circumflex motion observed in shoulder lameness is also
present in hip lameness, but under special conditions, and the test of
the difficulty, either by traveling on soft ground or in turning the
horse in a circle, may here also contribute to the diagnosis, as in
testing for lameness in the anterior extremity.

_Prognosis._--The prognosis of hip lameness is at times quite serious,
not only on account of the long duration of treatment required to effect
good results, and because of the character which may be assumed by the
disease, but of the permanence of the disability resulting from it.
Exostosis and ulcerative arthritis are sequelae which often resist every
form of treatment.

_Treatment._--As before intimated, this is little more than a repetition
of the remarks upon the lameness of the shoulder, with slight
modifications occasioned by the muscular structure of the hip, and we
are limited to the same recommendations of treatment. The advantages of
rest must be reaffirmed, with local applications, of which, however, it
may be said that they are more distinctly indicated and likely to be
more effective in their results than in shoulder lameness, and may be
more freely employed, whether in the form of liniments, blisters (singly
or repeated), firing, or setoning.

SPRAINS OF SUSPENSORY LIGAMENTS AND OF FLEXOR TENDONS OR THEIR SHEATHS.

The fibrous structure situated behind the cannon bones, both in the fore
and hind legs, is often th