EXOSTOSIS IN THE BONES OF THE FACE. 
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June .—Little or no alteration. He had become quite a nui¬ 
sance. His kind and benevolent owner signed his death warrant, 
and he was destroyed by opening the carotid arteries. 
The tumour extended from the junction of the parietal and 
frontal bones above the orbit to the end of the nasal, and from 
the septum nasi (through a portion of which it extended to the 
frontal sinus on the off side) to the superior maxilla, enveloping 
the whole of the facial bones and the roof of the mouth, including 
four molar teeth, and extending as far as the ethmoid and the 
face of the sphenoid bones. The inner cranial surface of the 
frontal and ethmoid bones was carious. 
It weighed, when detached, upwards of eleven pounds, and 
was of a fungoid fatty character; irregular in its shape. It 
measured sixteen inches long, twenty inches in breadth, and two 
feet eleven inches in circumference. The appetite and general 
health of the animal remained unaffected until his death. 
Had this poor fellow been my patient, I should have anticipated 
a different result. The life of a noble animal is, to me, as pre¬ 
cious as my own : at all events, his sufferings should not have 
been so protracted. I would have endeavoured to excise the 
tumour by the knife in its early stage. What could have pre¬ 
vented a favourable termination? I have frequently read of 
similar operations being performed with success on the human 
subject; and I have often seen the cavities of the nostrils laid 
open by accident in the horse, and nothing untoward has oc¬ 
curred. 
Will some of your readers kindly favour me with their ideas 
respecting the practicability of my treatment in a similar case? 
If I have not delineated this case so correctly as it should be, 
there is one or more who can ; at all events, there is nothing ex¬ 
tenuated or aught set down in malice. 
THE FETERINARIAN, APRIL I, 1838. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. —Cicero. 
Had we felt ourselves capable of furnishing the leader of the 
present number, we should, nevertheless, have given precedence 
to this most interesting account of the establishment of the Abou 
Zabcl school. Certain parts of it come home to our business and 
