REPORTS OF CASES. 
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again punctured left side—relief. This time the animal com¬ 
menced eating hay, circulation good, looked lively, in fact I 
commenced to take a more hopeful view of the case, when 
judge of my great disappointment, when again visiting the 
stable, at 10.30 A.M., to find my patient with livid mucous 
membranes, respirations seventy-eight, weak pulse, sup¬ 
pressed, painful cough, auscultation revealing rhonchus, and 
sibilus, cold extremities, sweaty patches over body—diagnosis, 
acute mechanical bronchitis. Now, as warm water, hot in¬ 
halations, hot poulticing, isolation, regulated atmosphere, or 
in fact any of the ordinary surroundings of a sick horse 
in civil life are luxuries which are beyond the “pale’’ of a 
government animal, I had simply to content myself by 
intra-tracheal injections, three times each da) r , of— 
Terebine, - - 4. 
The improvement commenced almost at once, the pulse 
and respirations were both almost normal on the fourth 
day, and on the fourteenth day from the initial attack my 
patient went to duty. 
I never saw an acute case of mechanical bronchitis re¬ 
corded before. I was induced to use the terebine directly 
into the diseased part (as I might call it) by its action as 
a disinfectant, and its stimulative effect on the respiratory 
organs generally. 
It must not be supposed, for one moment, that the War 
Department issues either eserine, pilocarpine, or terebine, or 
anything else, either medicines or instruments in keeping 
with modern times; no such reckless extravagance is ever 
indulged in, although an application for forty pounds of roll 
sulphur, or other useless stuff, would meet with an immediate 
and cheerful response. Under those decidedly exhilaratory 
surroundings, it can scarcely be a matter of wonder or surprise 
that the condemned and death list of army animuls, in “ these 
piping times of peace,” reaches the enormous numbers of 
thirteen (13) per cent, annually. 
FRACTURE OF THE ZYGOMATIC BONE, ITS REMOVAL, AND 
RECOVERY. 
By W. E. Smith, D.V.S., Sedalia, Mo. 
On the 26th of May, 1894, a fine-looking mare mule was 
brought to my office, being somewhat thin from hard work. 
Her owner gave the history of having struck her with a 
stone above the eye six weeks previously. I found an open¬ 
ing about half way from the left eye to the maxillary artic¬ 
ulation, and also a small opening, discharging pus, just 
internal to the orbital process. On probing I found the 
