CONSULTATIONS. 
591 
I have sent you a portion of the diseased occiput, as nothing 
affords me so much pleasure as corroborative proof, when circum- 
stances will admit, in all my communications to the best of vete- 
rinary works, The Veterinarian. 
The portion of bone which Mr. Read has kindly sent, was the 
occipital ridge. The whole of it is in a complete state of caries. 
I am not aware that we have a similar case in any of our records, 
nor would it have admitted either of cure or palliation. There 
was no interposition of sound bone between the diseased part 
and the cranial cavity. 
I have presented the bone to the Royal Veterinary College. 
Y. 
In a work that deserves a place even in the library of the 
veterinary surgeon, there is a history of caries of the occipital 
bone in the human being. Singular pains of the head occurred 
periodically, accompanied by imperfect speech — fixed eyes, 
dilated pupils, and paralysis of the muscles of the right side of 
the face, and gradually extending over the whole of the right 
side of the body. The dura mater and arachnoid membrane 
were sound — the lateral ventricles contained four ounces of 
limpid serosity — the cerebellum, a little within its external sur- 
face, assumed an increasing degree of hardness, and, towards 
the centre, was almost cartilaginous. The cause of the caries of 
the occipital bone was not known. 
Lallemcind sur V Enccphale, tome iii, 402. 
CONSULTATIONS. 
No. X. 
Urinary or Intestinal Disease. 
My dear Sir, — I FEEL some difficulty as to the management 
of a protracted case, and, presuming on the kindness you have 
always evinced towards me, I write to you for advice. 
A mare was attended by a farrier six weeks, during which time 
anodynes, aperients, bleedings, and copious enemata, were had re- 
course to, for what he thought was colic. The symptoms were 
spasms returning about once in every week. As no progress had 
been made, I was requested to see the patient. On entering the 
stable, I was struck with her anxious eye, bowed back, and erect 
tail. On examination, I found the membrane lining the vagina 
considerably inflamed — great tenderness over the region of the 
