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REPORTS OF CASES. 
lateral faces of the os suffraginus, and on the superior portion 
of the antorior face of the os corona. The accompanying rough 
sketch of the segments, held in position by wire, will give a 
correct idea of the front and rear views of the fractured bone. 
FOUND—FATHER’S MITTENS. 
By J. A. McCrank, D. V. S., Plattsburg, N. Y. 
On the evening of June iotli of this year I was called to see 
a cow, just driven in from pasture. She was greatly distended 
and in distress, but otherwise had every sign of good health. I 
advised letting her rest in the paddock for the night and I would 
see her in the morning. I suspected she ate too much of the 
quickly growing grass. When I called in the morning she was 
all right; chewing her quid, and wanted to go out again. She 
wa«5 sent to pasture at noon and returned in good condition at 
night. The next evening she came in very greatly distended 
and distressed ; the same treatment was resorted to and was fol¬ 
lowed with similar results. This condition of affairs continued 
until June 25, when she was found dead in the pasture. I was 
informed and made a post-mortem. Besides about a pound of 
nails, tacks and wire, I found a large pair of coarse woollen mit¬ 
tens, patched and darned to make them very large and heavy, 
having been in use for many years. The owner’s son was pres¬ 
ent at the post-mortem. When he saw the mittens he called 
out, jubilantly, “ Oh, there is father’s mittens that he lost last 
winter; he blamed me for destroying them.” The truth, in¬ 
deed. 
The animal was fat, healthy and in the pink of condition, 
and, if you will allow me to prophesy, she would have lived a 
good long life of health and usefulness had she not overbur¬ 
dened or overcrowded the rumen with the sweet young grass, 
which forced the mittens into the passage to the reticulum. 
Her flow of milk was not in the least interfered with all this 
time. 
TRACHEOTOMY IN A MARE. 
By John Minchin, V. S., Goshen, N. Y. 
On October 2d last I was called to go see a mare nine 
miles from my place, that her owner said could hardly breathe 
for a day or two, and that morning he thought she would 
choke. O11 inquiry was told the mare’s head was very much 
swollen, and to hurry up and come. And so I did. I found 
the animal in a very dangerous state—head of an enormous 
