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REPORTS OF CASES. 
lingual tissues, while the tongue and foreign body together 
could be slightly moved from side to side. 
An incision onto the projecting anterior portion revealed, 
not a foreign body, but an osseous new formation with which 
the surrounding soft tissues were intimately blended, rendering 
its separation more difficult from the surrounding parts than in 
case of normal bone with periosteum. Its separation proved 
quite tedious, and was finally accomplished by making an in¬ 
cision upward from below through the intermaxillary space 
about 3 inches long, and through this opening detaching 
the bone by cutting the soft parts away with a scalpel, and 
finally withdrew the neoplasm through the inferior opening. 
Viewed laterally the neoplasm is an irregular parallelogram, 
2^ inches long, i inch wide, and T 3 -g- inch in diameter. This 
had developed apparently in the median raphe of the tongue, 
its long diameter corresponding to that of the tongue, so that it 
stood up vomer-like in that organ, and being firmly fixed be¬ 
low served to prevent the normal movements in the affected 
organ, interfering seriously with mastication, because the food 
could not be guided between the grinders, causing particles of 
food to remain in the mouth to undergo decomposition ; and ren¬ 
dering deglutition difficult and unsafe, leading to the inhalation 
of food particles, and finally causing pneumonia. 
II.— Cystic Tumor (Retention Cyst) of Epiglottis—Chronic 
Suppurative Bronchitis — Staphylotomy—Ecrasement of Tumor 
— Tracheotomy—Atresia of Trachea from Infection of Tracheal 
IVou nd—In tub at ion . 
Patient a sorrel gelding, 16 hands high, weighing iioo lbs., 
about 8 years old, presented because of a -chronic cough and 
abundant nasal discharge. 
History : The horse had, for several years, been in the hands 
of cheap horse traders and had changed owners so frequently 
as to render the securing of any reliable data impossible. There 
was evidence to show that the malady was of, at least, two years 
duration. He had been in possession of the party presenting 
him at clinic for a few weeks, the condition remaining approxi¬ 
mately uniform during that period. 
Presented on January 3, 1901, the general appearance of the 
patient was good, the appetite undisturbed, was in fair flesh 
and competent to perform a moderate amount of labor, but 
there was an abundant nasal discharge of a rather thin floccu- 
lent, muco-purulent character and a frequent cough accompanied 
by the copious discharge per mouth of the same muco-purulent 
