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REPORTS OF CASES. 
A CASE OF RUPTURE OF THE SESAMOID LIGAMENTS. 
By John Minchin, V.S., Goshen, N. Y. 
On the morning of March 22<d, I was called to see a case of 
unusual interest, as it is the first I have met in my practice of 
several years. On that morning Daniel Conklin, living on the 
Young’s farm (3) three miles from Goshan, hitched up his team 
to take his milk to the condensory, four and a half miles. When 
h$ arrived there he found one of his horses quite lame in the off 
hind leg. Examined foot but could find nothing—horse getting 
lamer all the time. When about a mile from home he stopped, 
not yet knowing what had happened—he discovered for the first 
time blood on the ground, the horse was standing on his hind 
pastern bo?ies, the feet entirely separated from the joint as per¬ 
fectly as per. knife , only held by about (2) two inches of the skin 
—although he had yet a mile to get home, the horse walked 
there on those nude extremities with the hoofs flopping in every 
direction. 
Mr. Conklin owns the horse two years and he never showed 
any signs of hind trouble before. The bleeding was not profuse, 
which makes the case somewhat more confusing. There were 
many visitors to see the animal previous and subsequent to his 
death which I ordered. 
A FEW CASES RECENTLY TREATED. 
By. G. L. Hagenburger, D. V. S., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
I-—Bay gelding, eight years. Fibroma in the occipitol atloid 
region, size of a boy’s head, hard and indurated, animal being 
unable to turn its head freely, Owner would not lay up the ani¬ 
mal for an operation, and being a rather poor place to obtain 
proper drainage, used a galvanic battery (eighteen cells) with a 
Sol. of Iod. Pot. to the sponge electrodes applyed to the en¬ 
largement directly and its surroundings for five days and after¬ 
wards substituted Tr. Iodine on my electrodes. Subjected the 
animal to three more seances, after which the tumor disappeared 
entirely by the chatophoretic action produced by the currents 
