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REPORTS OF CASES. 
and hog cholera, and we tender the gratuitous observation that it 
would still be premature to jump to the conclusion that even the 
German schweineseuche is identical with our hog cholera. 
REPORTS OF CASES, 
FRACTURE AND SYNOVITIS OF THE TEMPORO-MAXILLARY 
JOINT—RECOVERY. 
By J. P. Wilson, D.V.S. 
Having treated a case of open joint, which resulted favorably, 
I concluded to report it. 
On April 2, 1886, a two-year-old filly was brought to me for 
examination. The history was as follows: about September 20, 
1885, the animal was kicked on the temporo-maxillary articula¬ 
tion, and was put under treatment by an empiric practitioner. 
The treatment consisted of opening the wound with an ordinary 
pocket knife, and injecting into it with a very small syringe once 
daily, a carbolic solution. The above treatment was kept up for 
six months. The animal was plethoric when first injured, but 
had become emaciated to a great extent. Mastication was evi¬ 
dently performed with great pain, and the muscles of mastication 
on the injured side were atrophied. The wound was discharging 
very little pus, but it had a very offensive odor characteristic of 
necrosis. From the repeated cutting which had been employed in 
the former treatment the cicatrisive tissue had formed to the ex¬ 
tent of an inch and a half in thickness, so that a diagnosis was 
difficult until some of it was removed. But by the use of the 
probe, which was with difficulty introduced, a diagnosis of the 
fracture was made involving the temporo-maxillary articulation. 
On April 3d the animal was cast, and an incision made so 
as to remove the indurated tissue to the extent of two inches in 
circumference, when a comminuted fracture of the inferior 
maxilla was discovered, the whole of the condyle being detached. 
The detached pieces of bone were removed, and the fractured 
surface of the inferior maxilla that had become necrosed was 
scraped, the wound dressed with a dilute solution of hydrochloric 
