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bandage, because for eight or ten days we took care that the 
horse should have nothing but liquid food. 
Two dogs had their jaws fractured by kicks from horses, and 
lost several of their teeth. In one of them the anterior part of 
the jaw was fractured perpendicularly; in the other both branches 
were fractured obliquely. They were kept on broth, which was 
injected into their mouths. In ten or twelve days they were 
suffered to lap it, and, a little while afterwards, they were dis- 
missed cured. 
Palsy of the Lips. — On occasion of a wound in the coffin- 
joint of one foot in one horse, and in the fetlock of another horse, 
palsy of the lower lip supervened. In the first horse it spread to 
the upper lip, so that the horse could not take any nourishment, 
and the poor animal wasted away, and died. Post-mortem ex- 
amination discovered a softening of the brain, occupying the whole 
of the corpus striatum, and on the side opposite to the wound. 
In the other horse the palsy did not spread beyond the part 
in which it first manifested itself. The horse recovered, and 
returned to his work. We must confess, however, that in the 
first case we did not trace any certain connexion between the 
palsy and the cerebral lesion. 
Three cases of palsy of the upper lip, and in which it was 
turned on one side, presented themselves about the same time. 
In one of them, belonging to the waggon-train, it was supposed 
to be occasioned by the blow of a hammer on the temporal 
apophysis, for a tumour appeared on that spot soon after the 
blow. The most persevering treatment could effect no change, 
and the animal was cast. The other two horses remained only a 
little while in our infirmary. They did not appear to amend, 
and we afterwards lost sight of them. 
Of our horses in the course of the session, 19 were destroyed, 
as being glandered. Of 34 with staggers, 23 were cured. Of 
21 that were farcied, 5 were destroyed. Of 50 cases of inflam- 
matory affection of the chest, 46 were cured. Of 3 tetanic horses, 
2 were cured ; and out of 9 cases of founder, 7 were discharged 
well and useful. Twenty-eight dogs died rabid. Of 26 dogs 
with fractures, 1 died; and out of 1L dogs or cats brought on 
account of laborious parturition, 7 were saved. 
Chair of Anatomy— M. Lecoq, Professor. 
1. In the sac of the chorion of a foetus of about six months, 
beside one hippomane* , free and floating, other similar bodies, 
* The ancients gave this name to small rounded masses, composed of 
coagulated lymph, which were found swimming in the fluid contained within 
the allantois. They are found oftenest in the mare, sometimes in cows and 
swine. They were occasionally dried and used as love-powders, and many 
a ridiculous superstition was attached to them. — Edit. 
