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sor * at the Harvard Medical School. He told the professor 
that he thought that springhalt was due to a peripheral dis¬ 
turbance, and that they did not agree with him at Clark Uni¬ 
versity. The professor told Dr. Bryden that changes in the 
spinal cord such as he described were not infrequently met 
with in various affection in the human, such as elephantiasis, 
schleroderma, lupus, etc. 
Dr. Howard says Dr. Winslow gives the Association this 
horse ; he is our property, and we shall insist that a full re¬ 
port of the investigation of the case first appears in the veter¬ 
inary journals. 
Dr. Bryden says it is not a good case to treat, and Dr. 
Osgood agrees that it may not be. 
Dr. Howard thinks that the foot is not as much contracted 
as the little black’s was. 
Motion made by Dr. Winchester that we accept the horse, 
and are glad to keep him at the Harvard Veterinary School 
i for a while, and that Mr. Bolton be invited to come and ex¬ 
periment with him. Seconded by Dr. Blackwood. Carried. 
Motion made by Dr. Osgood that we give Dr. Winslow a 
vote of thanks for the horse, and credit him on the Associa¬ 
tion’s book with a sum equal to the expense he has gone to in 
the matter. Seconded by Dr. Winchester. Carried. 
Dr. Bryden showed two very large ergots from back of 
the fetlocks of a grey horse. In his opinion the horn here 
developed in excess on account of the feet being imperfectly 
! nourished. 
Dr. Winchester showed a specimen of aneurism in a 
branch of the anterior mesenteric artery due to the strongy- 
lus armatus. This artery contained a chain of thrombi due 
to this cause, and free strongyles were formed in the poste¬ 
rior aorta. The animal from which the specimens were ob¬ 
tained was a mare about twenty years old, from which several 
fast colts have been raised. Dr. Winchester had known her 
for nine or ten years. Several years ago she was in pooi 
flesh while breeding, and had to be given twelve or sixteen 
*Tlie professor’s name withheld at Dr. Bryden’s request. 
