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SINGULAR EXOSTOSIS ON THE ANTERIOR MAX¬ 
ILLARY BONE—ITS SUCCESSFUL REMOVAL. 
By Mr. C. Dickins, F.S. Kimbolton. 
About the middle of February last my attention was called 
b Y a respectable smith to a two-year old cart colt, the property 
of a fanner in this neighbourhood, having, as he described, a 
large lump forming on the off side of the jaw. On examination 
I found it, as he represented, completely covering three of the 
incisor teeth ; or rather occupying their situation, and throwing 
the lip back to that degree, that the poor animal could only 
take its food in on one side of the mouth. On inquiry the 
owner informed me he had bought him about six weeks before, 
without observing this, of a stranger, being at that time not 
larger than a walnut, but now daily increasing, and appears ex¬ 
tremely vascular, but not very sensitive, and covered with a 
laminated substance similar to the mouth. I advised the owner 
to let me take it off; to which he at length gave his consent, 
seeing the poor creature was starving : I therefore cast him, and, 
and on cutting into it, found the ossific process forming to a 
great extent, so much so, that I was obliged to use the saw- 
through the major portion of it, which, when detached, weighed 
eight ounces. Considerable haemorrhage followed from three 
distinct arterial branches, but which were easily stopped by the 
cautery; and the healing process was attended with the best 
success, by applying for a few days simple dressings of tincture 
of myrrh. I saw him a few days since in perfect health ; 
but no appearance of its growing again, or yet of any teeth, 
which leads me to suppose it must have been the effect of acci¬ 
dent, in which the teeth got kicked or knocked out. 
ANNUAL EXAMINATION AT THE EDINBURGH 
VETERINARY SCHOOL. 
This important department of the Highland Society of Scot¬ 
land having last week terminated its season, the examinations 
of students intending to pass took place upon Wednesday and 
Thursday last. The candidates, as usual, were minutely exa¬ 
mined by several of the principal members of the medical profes¬ 
sion in Edinburgh, and in presence of a number of the directors, 
members of the Society, and other gentlemen. Of the medical 
gentlemen, we observed Professors Sir George Ballingali and 
Graham, Drs. Davidson, Mackintosh, and Borthwick, Messrs. 
Ncwbigging, Wood, Gillespie, and Fergusson. Of the directors, 
