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This complication is one of the common 
causes of recurrences and failures of operative 
treatment. It is incurable and if known to 
exist should be regarded as a contra-indication 
of the radical operation now universally recom- 
mended for poll-evil. 
Secondary Abscesses——Although there are 
fewer recesses and lamellar spaces for pus to 
burrow into about the poll than there are about 
the withers, there are, nevertheless, places 
where pus will escape from the immediate re- 
gion of the seat of poll-evil and cause secondary 
abscesses. The common one that occurs both 
before and after operating, localized at some 
point of the neck along the igamentum nuche. 
We have observed cases in which tracts extend- 
ed down the ligament as far as the base of the 
neck, the route followed being the space be- 
tween the cervical muscles and the lamellar 
portion of the ligaments just under the fu- 
nicular portion. Most of these abscesses, how- 
ever, localize at the level of the axis, where they 
sometimes produce a stubborn condition to 
handle by implicating the lamellar portion of 
the ligament at that point. 
Another focus of abscess formation is the 
space between the anterior part of the wing 
of the atlas and the styloid process of the oc- 
cipital. This complication is disclosed at the 
