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when he got the horse. I did not like the looks of the case, but 
I must try. I cast my patient, and after exposing the diseased 
tissues, I found five of the dorsal spines diseased, black and 
porous. It was necessary to remove from one-half to one inch 
and a half of them, after which I washed the cavity out thor¬ 
oughly, gave good drainage and let the animal arise. I now 
gave directions how to feed and to report to me if any unfavor¬ 
able changes took place. I supplied the man with a consider¬ 
able quantity of washes and came away. I will tell you in 
confidence that I was not at all proud of my work, for both the 
wound and the horse looked horrible when I was done. In 
eleven weeks from that date Mr. Lyon sold this young horse for a 
round price, $95 I believe, and he never was troubled with a 
sore in that region afterwards. Mr. Lyon’s home is about 1000 
feet above the level of the lake. 
During September of 1898 Mr. Legare, of Rand Hill, about 
1900 feet above the lake, brought to me a young horse with 
“poll-evil,” and as near as I could ascertain from ,the history 
of the case it was of over a year’s standing. I did not cast the 
beast, I got good drainage by passing two setons, gave him a 
large quantity of wash and sent him to his home. He did not 
pay me, neither did I think I merited much pay, for my success 
in the low lands was so poor that I thought the man would be 
out of pocket what he would pay me. During the next May 
this man drove to my office to have me operate on a calk boil, 
and sure here was my patient of last September sound as ever. 
The owner paid me well for the work, for I had heart to ask a good 
fee, and he informed me that the wound healed up in three weeks. 
When I meet with such cases 011 the low lands I seldom 
have success the first time I operate and often I fail the second 
time, and sometimes I never succeed. 
Many of my readers have no doubt been called upon to re¬ 
duce a fracture, and when it is a fracture of a limb, sometimes, 
like myself, you object to operate because the beast is old, or be¬ 
cause there are external injuries, as a bone protruding, through 
the skin, bruises, etc. 
