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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 703 
REPORTS OF INTERESTING CASES. 
President: I saw within the past two months a case of 
hydrocephalus in a colt, the circumference of its head being 
thirty-seven inches. I removed the fifth leg of a young colt 
at its junction with the body. The wound healed satisfactor¬ 
ily under antiseptic dressings. 
Dr. Morse: I have divided the posterior tibial nerve in 
twenty cases for spavin and hock lameness and at first I 
thought I should be able to report to you a perfectly success¬ 
ful operation for hock lameness. Nearly all of them go straight 
and smooth immediately after this operation, and some con¬ 
tinue to do so now ; but many of them go lame again after a 
hard drive, and upon examination I find the divided nerves 
are grown together again even in cases where a half inch or 
more of the nerve had been resected. 
In the operation of neurotomy for the relief of navicular 
lameness I find the same difficulty, and propose to stitch the 
distal portion of the divided nerve into the wound so that it 
cannot unite with the approximal portion, and I will report 
the results to you next year. 
I would like to know what you are doing in cases of bog 
spavins and thoroughpin. I have been aspirating the excess¬ 
ive fluid from the articular sack, and then injecting into the 
cavity a solution of iodine. The iodine sets up a lively in¬ 
flammation which causes the animal intense pain; it will be¬ 
come very restless, tuck up in the flanks, and even become 
wet with perspiration; the inflamed limb will be held from 
the ground. The pain will subside in a few hours, the toe 
will come to the ground in two or three days, and the animal 
is turned to pasture for three or four months, when recovery 
will have been completed. 
Dr. Thomas: I am treating this class of cases by an elastic 
bandage made to lace on the parts, and I think the results are 
very satisfactory. The bandage is made on the same princi¬ 
ple as the elastic stocking and adapts itself to the parts very 
nicely ; compressers are applied over the sacculated points. 
Dr. M. E. Johnson: I wish to inquire what preparation 
and strength of iodine Dr. Morse uses. 
