II.— NECK. 



WOUND OF THE NECK. 



42. A nine-year-old gelding suffering from a wound in the region 

 of the neck, left in hospital the i8th November, 1898. 



On the i6th November when out for exercise this horse had reared 

 up when passing close to a man carrying a scythe, and the cutting 

 edge of the implement had entered the neck, producing a large wound 

 (Fig. 32). 



State oil entering Hospital. — The patient was brought to hospital 



Fig. 32. 



two days after the accident. On the left side of the neck was a wound 

 about tw-elve inches in length, running obliquely forwards and down- 

 w^ards, extending from the upper border of the neck to within an inch 

 and a half of the jugular furrow. Its anterior extremity was almost in 

 contact with the lower jaw. Above, it passed across the upper margin 

 of the neck, and for a further distance of three inches over the right 



