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SO-CALLED SPINAL MENINGITIS. 
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errors committed and the means of avoiding them. It is with 
this view that I have undertaken the introduction of this 
branch of instruction among my students. 
The first ridgling was operated on in 1891 at one of our 
clinics, and we were soon furnished with plenty of subjects, 
and in one year we had operated upon twelve without a sin¬ 
gle fatal result. This is sufficiently encouraging. These 
twelve included seven unilateral abdominal, three on the right 
and four on the left side; and five inguinal, one double and 
three simple, one on the left and two on the right. The case 
of double cryptorchidy was treated in two operations three 
months apart. 
On the occasion of the first operation I showed the stu¬ 
dents the very simple preparation of the subject. A speci¬ 
men, dissected for that purpose, exhibited the anatomy of the 
inguinal region so far as to include the parts interesting to 
the surgeon and involved in the operation, and on its conclu¬ 
sion the students were allowed to watch the result. Each of 
the subjects presented some peculiarities of its own, and this 
gave me good opportunities for subsequent clinical demon¬ 
strations. 
I feel it to be my duty to publish my observations, and I 
do so with the hope that they may prove to be of benefit to 
my colleagues. A true knowledge of the actual dangers at¬ 
tending this act of surgical interference, and of the ways of 
avoiding them, should give confidence to timid practitioners, 
and stimulate and encourage them in undertaking one of the 
most brilliant and useful operations of veterinary surgery. 
(To be continued ). 
SO-CALLED SPINAL MENINGITIS. 
By G. C. Fayille, D.V.M., Baltimore, Md. • 
(A paper read before the Maryland State Veterinary Medical Association.) 
The case which I shall report this evening, proved to be 
of so much interest to me, that its interest must be my ex¬ 
cuse for presenting it. 
On November 19th, Dr. Barron received a call to see a 
bay horse six years old. The doctor being busy at the time, 
