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mucosities and highly congested. The left guttural pouches had 
their walls considerably thickened and somewhat retracted, and 
contained a small quantity of inspissated pus, scarcely an ounce. 
This seemed to communicate with a smaller purulent collection 
situated directly under the foramen lacerum. The glosso-pharyn- 
geal nerve of that side was thickened, congested and the nervous 
substance appeared softened and degenerated. It is now prepared 
for microscopic examination, and its condition will he reported 
later on. 
When taking into consideration the location of the abscess and 
the lesion of the nerve, the paralysis of the pharynx can be readily 
understood, while, at the same time, the small size of collection 
and its deep situation at the base of the cranium, must necessarily 
exclude the possibility of its puncture per mouth, as recommended 
by some veterinary authorities. 
LACERATION AT THE METATARSAL REGION-NECROSIS AND 
SLOUGHING OF A LARGE PIECE OF BONE. 
By the Same. 
A green horse, becoming frightened at the elevated railroad, 
ran away, and in turning a corner got his near hind leg into the 
opening of a sewer and was brought to the college with a wound 
of the anterior metatarsal region, about eight inches in length, 
and laying bare the hone, and denuding it of its periosteum. Not 
much haemorrhage took place, but there was a loss of some tissue. 
The flap of skin was stitched up and cold water bandages applied. 
It immediately commenced to slough, granulations springing up 
which were controlled by pressure and caustics. After some three 
weeks the wound had partially closed, but leaving a wide fistulous 
tract leading to the bone, through which a probe came in contact 
with the roughened and diseased scale of bone corresponding to 
that portion from which the periosteum had been removed. It 
was gradually becoming loosened, but the scale was so large that 
its removal was postponed until the twenty-fourth day after the 
accident, when the scale was seized with a pair of tooth forceps 
and removed. It was still firmly attached and was withdrawn 
