A NOTE FROM THE DISSECTING ROOM. 
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On arriving found a large bay gelding 8 years old, and I 
think he was the thinnest, poorest specimen of a horse I ever saw 
alive. He would have been worth twenty-five dollars for muscu¬ 
lar dissection. I found him on the floor of a large barn, with hay 
mows on two sides and board partitions on the others, with a 
trough of running water in one corner. The owner informed me 
that the boy, a lad about 12 years old, gave the animal four quarts 
of oats a day, and that the horse was never driven, as he, the 
owner, lived in town and wintered the horse at his farm, and the 
boy only had to turn the horse out in pleasant weather; that when 
he turned the horse into the barn the first part of November he 
was as fat as a pig. I looked at the animal’s mouth and found no 
trouble, also saw that he drank well, fed him some oats and he 
ate them well. I then began to look at the surroundings and 
found that the hay had been eaten up as far as the horse could 
reach and in as far as he could get. I should have said that his 
lips inside and especially the upper one looked as though they were 
full of little ulcers. On looking at the mow of hay and pressing 
my hand against it it was as though one pressed it on so many 
pieces of wire, it was so hard and solid all around. I then took a 
rake and raked down some of the hay from the top of the mow 
and the poor animal almost swallowed it without masticating it 
at all. I then inquired of the boy if he ever threw down any hay 
from the top of the mow, and he said, “ no, can’t he get all he wants 
off of the mow ?” He might as well have tried to get hay from the 
side of a brick house, the hay was packed in so tight and hard. 
Treatment: small quantities from the top of the mow for a few 
days, then a good quantity, all the animal could eat. The animal 
made a very rapid recovery. 
A NOTE FROM THE DISSECTING ROOM. 
ABSENCE OF THE RIGHT INTERNAL ILIAC. 
This interesting abnormality was observed in the dissection of 
the arteries of the right hind leg of a horse, in which the entire 
internal iliac was entirely absent. The termination of the abdom¬ 
inal aorta was made by only three instead of four branches. On 
