REPORTS OF CASES. 
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. , PA1 ’ 1 IL h°MA OF the Mouth.— On Saturday morning-, Oc¬ 
tober 3d, there was brought to the hospital for treatment a fe¬ 
male cocker spaniel dog, suffering with the above named dis- 
ease. Unluckily the history was somewhat incomplete. The 
owner had bought the dog some two months before, the patient 
having the disease at that tune, but not so extensively as now 
He at once took her to a veterinary surgeon, who ligated one 
of the larger tumors, which readily sloughed away only to re¬ 
appear again Upon examination we found the mucous mem- 
t le hf’ cheeks and tongue almost completely covered 
with the growths, in different stages of maturity, some as lar«e 
as a bean, others quite small. To give some idea of the lium- 
ber, I counted twenty-six on the superior face of the tomme 
and they were much more numerous on the border of that or- 
gan, also on the borders of the lips. The larger ones were in a 
state of degeneration, as they could easily be pulled awav with 
e forceps, but the smaller were, as a rule, more compact and 
rmly set in the membrane. As the diseased portion was so ' 
extensive the owner was advised to have the patient destroyed 
and thus end the little fellow’s suffering. This he readily con¬ 
sented to, and left him at the hospital for that purpose. He 
was kept till the hour of the afternoon clinic for the students’ 
benefit, after which he was destroyed by chloroform 
Traumatic Synovitis Simulating Fracture.— An ao-ed 
ihestimt gelding was brought to the A. V. C. clinic on Sept 
!6th with the following history: He had fallen down, while at 
vork, on the off side, about four days previously and when he 
tot up was very lame on the near hind leg and growing o-radu- 
aly worse, until he would not put his foot to the ground. 'After 
. thorough examination had been made a diagnosis of fracture 
vas given, owing to the fact that a crepitant sound could be 
■eard at times upon flexing, extending and rotating the leg, but 
t was only slight ; rectal exploration proving nil. Treatment 
ras advised, and he was left in the hospital. A blister was 
pp led and the animal placed in slings, but he was so restless 
1 them that they were taken away and his head tied up short, 
here being 110 improvement in his condition after five davs he 
•as destroyed. On post-mortem no signs of a fracture could be 
>und, but an extensive infiltration into the cellular tissue 
round the. stifle joint. When the articulation was opened a 
reat quantity of coagulated synovia poured out. 
