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paralysis soon succeeded. Apprised of this change, the author 
was soon on the spot, when he found the patient extended on 
the litter, exhibiting from time to time convulsive contractions 
of the legs; the eyes were pale, and turned in their orbits. 
When the mouth was opened it had no power of closing it 
again, and everything indicated a speedy death. Thinking 
that there either was effusion of blood or an abscess on the 
brain, the author determined to remove the whole of the 
detached bone, in order to give vent to whatever fluid might 
exist on the brain. The fractured bone was slightly raised 
by a small lever, and seized with the dissecting forceps and 
removed, when there escaped from under it a quantity of 
pus, which continued to flow for some time. On probing the 
parts the author fancied that it communicated with the right 
ventricle, a portion of the brain being loose near the fracture. 
A piece of fine linen was now laid over the exposed brain, and 
the opening closed by suture as before ; the whole of the 
cranium was also covered with a piece of linen, which was 
kept constantly wet. The foal remained extended on the 
litter. The owner would have sacrificed it, but the author 
begged for a respite, and the treatment was continued. On 
his next visit there was a considerable prolapsus of the 
substance of the brain through the opening; this substance 
had a grayish, sanguineous appearance. The author abstained 
from reducing it, but left the wound to cicatrize. It was now 
dressed twice a day with tincture of aloes, applied with a 
soft feather. The substance of the brain soon became covered 
with healthy granulations of a rose colour, the edges of the 
bones exfoliated, and as the granulations increased, the 
hernia diminished. At the beginning of June, nearly two 
months after the accident, the wound was entirely cicatrized, 
the sight restored, and a few months after the foal, having 
recovered its condition and health, was sold by the proprietor, 
who, some time after, meeting the buyer, was informed by 
him that it was growing into a fine horse. 
ON EGYPTIACUM IN OPEN JOINTS. 
Bv the Same. 
• V 
On the 19th of November, I860, a mare, seven years old, 
had caught her right fore foot in the chain of the head-stall, 
and in her struggles to free herself nearly tore her foot off; it 
onty hung by the skin and the ligaments on outside ; on 
inside there was a deep, lacerated wound, from which synovia 
