REPORTS OF CASES. 
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have authority for supporting their opinions in cases where lines 
have to be drawn between one class and another, and breeders 
will be encouraged to breed more to type than they are at the 
present time. 
We think that in judging horses by scales of points, each and 
every point should be valued according to its merits as compared 
with the same point in other animals which are in the ring and 
before the committee for award, and not by its supposed import¬ 
ance or relative value as compared with other points in the same 
animal in a standard which allows say ioo or 1,000 as the 
maximum of the aggregate of all the points. By the former 
method the judgment at once evolves into the question of good, 
better , best , at each point, easier, however, to express by figures, 
and it ensures thorough inspection of all the parts before they 
can be pronounced upon intelligently, a procedure in itself to be 
highly commended. 
REPORTS OF GASES. 
SEPTICAEMIA, RESULTING FROM A KICK. 
By O. Fausner, D.V.S., House Surgeon. 
On July 27th, there was a large iron-gray gelding, seven 
years of age, admitted to the hospital, with the following brief 
history, animal was kicked on the near hind leg, at the lower 
third of the tibia, the entire leg was cedematous, and on close 
examination a small opening was found, this was probed, and 
the track extended to the bone ; was also found that the perios¬ 
teum was gone; a slight amount of pus began to flow when 
the probe was removed ; owner said the horse was kicked 
about eleven days ago ; a veterinary surgeon was called in, 
said it was a trifling wound, and the horse would be able to 
work in a few days ; treatment was hot fermentations and apply 
ice packs to the head, this not being successful, the owner 
called at the hospital. 
Animal was hardly able to stand, was put in a sling and 
