OF 80ME OF THE BONES OF HORSES. SOS 
ing the splents. I bathed the fractured part well with lotions of 
the water of Labaraque, and then replaced the bandage as be¬ 
fore ; and ordered that |it should be thus bathed every five or 
six days. At the end of six weeks he was able to rest on that 
leg in order to change his place: and in about seven weeks the 
dressings were taken off, and the horse was well enough to be 
led to his own stable, which was at a considerable distance, 
and where he was allowed to rest for three weeks, from a kind of 
excess of precaution. From that time to this the animal has 
done his daily work, drawing a heavy cart on the pavement of a 
town ; and though he limps a little when he is trotted, he does 
as much slow work as ever he did. 
Recueil de Med, Vet., Nov. 1831. 
A Tumour enclosed in the Cranium. 
By M. Leloir. 
In 1814, a horse was struck by a ball, which caused a swelling 
on the superior part of the chest, six inches from the withers. 
The horse was brought to Alfort, and cured; but periodically, 
in the springs of the years 1815, 1816,1817, there appeared a 
little below the scar on the chest a tumour, about the size of a 
man’s fist (the cause of which could not be accounted for), and 
which broke, and required only cleanliness to heal it. 
In April 1818, and in April 1819, instead of the appearance 
of these tumours, the horse exhibited symptoms of intense ver¬ 
tigo, which, at the first time, disappeared in eight days, after 
plentiful bleedings, purgatives, the head being bathed with 
cold water, and revulsives being applied to the chest and back. 
After the second attack the horse remained in the following 
state :— 
The horse constantly held his head low, and inclined to the 
right side; his gait was irregular and staggering ; his fore limbs 
were convulsed to such a degree, that progression was performed 
by leaps, or oftener by spasmodic bounds. He was completely 
blind, and rapidly lost condition ; although he ate and drank 
voraciously. He remained in this state until the month of No¬ 
vember, when all the symptoms except the blindness had mate¬ 
rially diminished. On the 3d of January, 1820, the horse died 
suddenly, during a fresh attack of vertigo. 
The post-mortem examination shewed the following lesions. 
The dura mater and arachnoid membrane were very red on 
the superior and anterior portion of the brain. About two-thirds 
