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REPORTS OF CASES. 
ing with inspiration and expiration. Accordingly an impression 
of the skull was made with dental wax on Aug. 2d and a plate of 
pure silver ordered made. Plate thickness of ordinary writing 
paper. Object of pivot on back of plate, prevented it from 
slipping out of place, as it would naturally do. For obvious 
reasons nothing but pure silver could be used. Pure silver 
is 1000 fine, solid silver is 996 fine. Cost, $6.50. 
Upon completion of the plate and insertion of the same on 
Aug. 8th it was found necessary (the animal acting mean) to 
throw her. A longitudinal incision 3^ in. lg. and a transverse 
one of 2^ in. was then made and the plate (having been ren¬ 
dered aseptic by boiling in carbolic solution [1 to 30]) inserted 
and wound closed with silver wire. The entire operation was 
performed under a carbolic spray. For the first week after 
plate was introduced there was a slight purulent discharge from 
the near nostril with no odor ; this subsided after one week. No 
discharge since. There is no bulging at location of plate ; no 
thickening of skin nor tissues nor soreness on pressure, neither 
has there been any elevation of temperature at any time. 
At present all that remains is a round cicatrix about y 2 in. 
in diameter. 
Prof. Ryder discharged the case Sept. 3d. Since then the 
mare has been regularly schooled over fences and is entered at 
the coming show at the Garden in the green hunter class. 
As to whether silver plates could be used over any other 
opening than the one herein described (which is probably the 
most favorable place) seems possible to me. 
In conclusion the deductions to be made from the above de¬ 
scribed feat of our professor are that often opportunities will 
present themselves requiring the exercise of mechanical in¬ 
genuity. 
As the veterinary physicians of the future, will we be able 
to meet them ? 
COMMINUTED FRACTURE OF THE OS SUFERAGINUS IN A 
RACE HORSE. 
By Wm. C. MieeeR, D. V. S , House Surgeon'American Veterinary 
Hospital, New York City. 
On Friday, October nth, a stable boy was exercising a bay 
stallion, three years of age, on one of the race-tracks near New 
York City, and was warming him up on the back stretch, when 
he heard something “ pop ” like a pistol shot; thinking some¬ 
thing had happened to his horse, he dismounted and examined 
