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REPORTS OF CASES. 
cavity directing back under the zygomatic bone. On ex¬ 
ploring the external opening I found small pieces of bone, 
which seemed to be adhered, so I told the owner I would 
have to use the knife to make any further progress in the 
examination. Having secured the patient in a standing 
posture by the owner’s apparent hypnotism, I probed and 
found a large cavity, and made an opening about one and a 
half inches long, when I discovered that the periosteum had 
separated and taken some of the outside of the bone with it; 
so I caught some of these loose pieces with my forceps, and 
then cut them loose. I worked forward, and finally found a 
fracture at the junction of the zygomatic and orbital pro¬ 
cesses. I observed the lower jaw sat over to the right, about 
5-16 inch at the corner incisor teeth. I laid bare the anterior 
portion of the zygomatic and took hold of the loose end, and 
soon found it had broken loose at the temporal bone also; so 
I felt that I had on my hands a severe operation—to dissect 
the muscles away, to disarticulate the joint of the jaw, and to 
displace this massive bone without any skilled help, seemed 
to me like failure staring me in the face. I looked for the 
mule to break loose or throw herself, but the owner would 
look at me and then at the mule, and I went on as much com¬ 
posed as possible under such circumstances; but, to my sur¬ 
prise, she only lifted one front foot after the other and pulled 
her head from me slightly when the ligaments of the joint 
were severed. Considerable haemorrhage accompanied the 
extraction of this bone. I washed out the cavity with creo- 
lin solution and packed it with oakum. In twenty-four hours 
it was taken out and washed clean and repacked ; and in a 
few days the inferior maxilla had come back to its place and 
mastication became better, the wound doing nicelv. She 
fattened and worked hard after about the first thirty days, 
during which she was at pasture. She made a good recovery 
and was sold to a mule buyer, who failed to detect anything 
wrong. The head filled out to its natural size, and there 
seemed to be a fibrous articulation formed to meet the con¬ 
dyles of the inferior maxilla. On examination of the ex¬ 
tracted bone I find at the point of injury a dark spot, and 
under it the bone is very porous and the menisci gone, and 
the condyles worn where they rubbed to about 1-32 of an inch. 
A VERY STRANGE CASE. 
By Jno. Minchin, V.S., Goshen, N. Y. 
On the afternoon of February 21st, while passing the resi¬ 
dence of Supervisor Wells, I was hailed and invited to drive 
in, as the butcher would like to see me. I followed the man 
