OSTERO-POROSIS. 
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Williams’ opinion. I have seen and in some instances ob¬ 
served for months a very large number of cases in this city. 
Some years ago, when this disease was not as well understood 
and not as popular (if 1 may use the term) among veterinar¬ 
ians as it was now, it is n^ good fortune—or misfortune, I 
hardly know which—to come in contact with some ten or 
twelve cases inside of a few months. 
In 1879, shortly after I graduated, I saw my first case of 
osteo-porosis, and there being one or two interesting events 
connected with it, I will here briefly refer to it. A bay geld¬ 
ing, six years old, the property of a well-known grocer, had 
been attended by a self-educated veterinarian of good stand¬ 
ing for a number of weeks for intermittent lameness, distem¬ 
per and a peculiar swelling of the head to which the owner 
had repeatedly called his attention and for which a liniment 
had been prescribed. When I was called in to see him some 
eight or ten days after the above-referred-to practitioner had 
discharged him as being cured, the animal presented all the 
symptoms of an ordinary acute case of influenza, but upon 
placing my finger upon the submaxillary artery I was sur¬ 
prised at the immense thickness of the inferior maxilla, and 
viewing the side of his face I could not help but notice a 
peculiar fullness under the eyes—in fact Ihe animal’s head 
presented a very striking appearance even to an ordinary 
observer. Questioning the owner elicited the above history. 
A diagnosis of osteo-porosis was made and the owner informed 
that his horse would very probably speedily recover from the 
influenza, but I advised him to dispose of him as soon as 
he was well, for the other complaint was positively incurable, 
and would render the animal useless for the remainder of his 
life—basing my opinion purely upon lectures heard at col¬ 
lege and Prof. Williams’ writings upon the subject. A few 
days later meeting Dr. H. Hausman—as you all know, a regu¬ 
lar graduate in veterinary medicine, and an able practitioner 
of probably thirty or forty years standing, having practiced 
in this city, to my knowledge, for about twenty years—1 re¬ 
lated the case to him; he manifested considerable interest in 
the same and expressed a desire to see it. Dr. H. and myself 
visited the patient the next day and the doctor admitted that 
