CORRESPONDENCE. 
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ians for their hospitality, and the Association adjourned to 
meet in Topeka on the Thursday of State Fair week. 
N. S. Mayo, Secretary. 
VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OP NEW JERSEY. 
Through the kindness of Dr. W. H. Cooper, V.S., Secre¬ 
tary, we have received notice that the eighth annual meeting 
of this Association was held on the 14th of April at the State 
Street House, in Trenton, N. J. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Mount Sterling, Ky., April 14th, 1892. 
Prof. A. Liaatard, M.D ., V.S.: 
Dear Sir : If you think the case I mention here worthy 
! of notice, will you please report it in the Review ? 
The patient was a three-year-old colt. The history was 
• this : Last fall a slight enlargement was noticed at inferior 
; third of neck, just at the commencement of thorax. 
: ' The colt had run at grass ever since, until April 12th, 
I when it got in the stable and ate some coi n and foddei. 
On April 13th the owner came for me, saying that he 
thought the colt was choked with a corn cob. When 1 
arrived I found a large swelling at inferior third of neck 
which felt like a soft tumor. The trachea was displaced very 
much to the left. Great difficulty in breathing, discharge of 
| food from nostrils, also attempts at vomiting, and food would 
be sometimes ejected in this matter. 
I cast the colt and dissected down on the swelling, which 
I found to resemble a distended bladder, and found the tiouble 
to be a rupture of the muscular coat of oesophagus. The rup¬ 
ture was about three inches in length, and had evidently 
taken place some time previously. As I found this condition 
I destroyed the colt and took out the oesophagus at that part, 
and found the mucous membrane inflamed. I think the rup¬ 
ture must have taken place last fall, when the swelling was 
first noticed, but owing to the grass diet which the colt had 
received, no ser#ous trouble resulted, until he ate coin and 
fodder. The oesophagus at that portion where the rupture 
existed, was packed with corn and othei food. 
