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REPORTS OF CASES. 
standing- all our efforts death seized him Monday, July 13th, 
at two o’clock in the afternoon. 
The tumor was irregularly elliptical, flattened from side 
to side, measuring nine inches in its longer and seven and 
one-half inches in its. shorter circumference, weighing five 
ounces and five drams. On cross section through its longer 
diameter an empty sac was found in the center of the body 
capable of containing about one dram. Through the mid¬ 
dle ran a band of dense tissue that separated a lighter col¬ 
ored and less dense from a darker colored and more dense 
portion. 
On post-mortem the alimentary was found to be normal; 
stomach containing milk punch, and the rectum contained nor¬ 
mal fasces. The liver was slightly enlarged, weighing about 
two and one-half pounds, normal in color and consistency. 
Gall bladder was distended with bile. The lungs and heart 
were normal, as were the kidneys and ureters. The bladder 
was greatly distended, containing 18 ounces of normal urine. 
THORACIC JABOT-SUPPURATIVE PNEUMONIA—DEATH. 
By E. B. Ackerman, D.V.S., House Surgeon. 
The subject of this paper was a bay gelding, twelve years 
of age, used altogether as a saddle horse, to attend which 
I was called on Sunday, May 31, 1891, at 6:30 A.M. He 
had eaten most of his breakfast, which consisted of whole 
corn on the cob, when he was taken with a violent fit of chok¬ 
ing. When 1 arrived the patient was lying down, and cov¬ 
ered with perspiration from his exertions, every few minutes 
having spasms of the muscles of the neck with violent chok¬ 
ing, and a discharge from the nose mixed with chewed food, 
with a regurgitation or wave-like motion running up the oeso¬ 
phagus. 
Diagnosed case of choke caused by corn cob, which I was 
unable to detect in the cervical portion of the oesophagus, 
and suspected pharyngeal or laryngeal choke. Tried horse 
with water, but he would not drink. Introduced speculum 
in the mouth and made an examination of the throat; found 
