DISLOCATION OF THE CERVICAL VERTEBRAE. 
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I do not believe that the cantharides in the liquid blister had 
any thing to do with this laceration and decomposition of the 
stomach. 
Mr. Wallis, in the present year, page 83, gives a very re¬ 
markable account of the rupture and decomposition of the 
stomach in a colt:—There remained of the stomach a nar¬ 
row slip only, which served as a medium of connexion between 
the oesophagus and the duodenum, and this was nearly decom¬ 
posed.’’ This animal drank some water, and ate a small quan¬ 
tity of bran-mash in the evening previous to the night during 
which he died.—Y.] 
CASE OF DISLOCATION OF THE CERVICAL 
VERTEBRiE IN A MARE. 
By Mr. W. C. Spooner, Southampton. 
Some months since, in January last, I was requested to attend 
a mare belonging to Charles Short, Esq., of Ampfield, near this 
town. Adjutant of the North Hants Yeomanry Cavalry, that 
a few nights previously had entangled herself in the halter, 
and had been lying some hours with the head bent under the 
body. The mare presented a very pitiable appearance. The 
head was considerably swollen in consequence of her being 
unable to raise it a foot from the ground, and the neck was bent 
round in the form of a half-circle. The transverse processes of 
the fifth and sixth cervical vertebree appeared to be dislocated, 
or, at any rate, considerably stretched out of their natural posi¬ 
tion, so that the head would swing from side to side, the mare 
appearing to possess no power over it. She was excessively 
weak, and unable to walk, or even to sustain her own weight, so 
that it was necessary to support her partially by a sling. 
Bad as the case appeared, I was yet induced to give a favour¬ 
able prognosis, having been successful in a similar accident. There 
was considerable fever, for which the mare was bled, and other¬ 
wise treated ; but I relied chiefly on mechanical treatment in 
assisting the muscles of the neck in bringing it again to its right 
position, for which purpose the head and neck were sus])ended 
from several different points, all bearing towards the convex side. 
By this means the head was elevated as high as the manger, 
and this, with a seton in the throat, soon lessened the swelling of 
which I have spoken. A piece of web was fastened round the 
face, another higher up, and a third portion round the neck. By 
having tliese several supports I’or her head, tlic mare was enabled 
