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REPORTS OF CASES. 
appearance upon its anterior aspect, as this proves a condition 
called calf kneed , a style of formation that is much objected to 
from the artistic standpoint. Neither should the knee bend 
forward, as such a condition is indicative of its having been ex¬ 
posed to broader work than the tissues forming it could with¬ 
stand, though we occasionally meet with horses that are over in 
their knees, and yet able to do a hard day s work without being 
materially affected, but such joints present a weak appearance 
and are consequently unpopular. 
(To be Continued.) 
REPORTS OF GASES. 
KALI IODIDI IN THE TREATMENT OF CHAMPIGNON. 
By W. C. Siegmund, D.V.S., House Surgeon, N. Y. 
The records of the effect of this form of treatment being yet 
few in number, and therefore its value not accepted by many 
veterinarians, the result obtained with the two following cases, 
are of importance—one of the patients having improved consid¬ 
erably and the second recovered to all appearances entirely. 
The interest in these cases will also be no less when the 
quantity of the medicine administered will be taken in consider¬ 
ation. The first one received as much as 267 drachms, while 
under our direct treatment, that is from February 15 to April 5, 
and the second as much as 321 drachms—taking in some part 
as much as 12 drachms a day. 
Case No. 1 .—A bay gelding, 9 years of age, was brought to 
observation at a free clinic February 14, 1894. The owner 
stated that he owned the animal three years and that he always 
had a large swelling of the sheath and scrotum, which dis¬ 
charged a foul purulent material in winter time, healing, as it 
seemed, in the summer ; of late the tumor has gradually and 
considerably increased. 
Indeed the scrotum is enormous—the swelling extending 
more towards the right. There are several running fistulous 
