REPORTS OF OASES. 
431 
fractured vertebras. The following day I encased her whole 
neck from the shoulders to the ears in a stiff plaster made 
with a saturated alcoholic solution of gum lac, and strips of 
cotton cloth. 
The rest of the story is dreary enough. She was kept 
lying on rubber beds inflated with air such as are used 
in hospitals. Two of these were used. When she had lain 
long enough on one side, we pushed the other bed close up 
to her back and rolled her over on that. Also later we had 
a lattice work made which stood up some little height from 
the floor and so arranged that we could remove one or more 
slats from underneath any place from which we wished to 
• _____ 
remove pressure. This continued between four and five 
weeks. The mare gradually improved, paralysis slowly dis¬ 
appearing. About this time she was lifted in slings and 
made very promising attempts at standing up. A few days 
later she was again lifted in slings and stood up as nice and 
straight as any horse ever did. 
But alas for complications ! In spite of -all our care, her 
six weeks’ constant lying in bed had caused the development 
of enormous sores on both hips. She began to show 
symptoms of blood poisoning, quickly grew worse, and died 
in septic convulsions at 9 P.M. on the third day of August, 
just six weeks from the day of the accident. 
Post Mortem Revelations .—The second and third cervical 
vertebras were both found to be the seats of fractures. The 
lesions in the vertebras dentata were as follows: About an 
inch of the free extremity of the right transverse process was 
broken off, also there was a large amount of calcareous 
deposit on the superior spinous process and on the posterior 
two-thirds of the floor of the spinal canal. 
The lesions in the third vetebras were still more severe. 
The right anterior articular process was knocked clean off by 
its neck. There was a large amount of osseous deposit 
around the seat of this fracture and also posterior to it 
causing almost complete occlusion of the vertebral foramen. 
The anterior end of. the left transverse process was also 
broken off, and there was a considerable amount of calcareous 
