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STRUMOUS ENLARGEMENT OE THE GLANDS. 
acted cautiously in becoming doubly sure that recovery was 
impossible before he decided upon the advice he gave. 
The specimen sent to me was, as stated by Mr. Walley in 
his letter, a portion of the vertebral chain, consisting of the 
last dorsal and the first lumbar vertebra. I found, as he 
likewise stated, that the inferior vertebral ligament, and the 
fibro-cartilaginous substance which connects the bodies of 
the vertebrae together, were torn through, and so com¬ 
pletely was this effected that, had I not had the greatest 
reliance on the veracity of my informant, I should have 
almost fancied that the parts had been severed with a 
knife. 
The precise nature of the cause which gave rise to this 
lesion remains, however, a mystery to me, for nothing special 
has been mentioned in Mr. Walley’s letter to account for it. 
I think it probable that the horse either slipped or fell down 
in some way or other unknown very likely to the rider, 
thereby partially lacerating the ligament and cartilago- 
ligamentous tissue referred to, and which afterwards, from 
the exhausted condition of the muscles of the back and the 
weight of the rider, wholly gave way. The bond of union 
between the bodies of the two vertebrae being severed, 
nothing would prevent their twisting from their natural 
position, and in doing so they would press upon the spinal 
cord. Seeing, therefore, how this can be effected, we can 
easily understand how paralysis would ensue; and we may 
be also certain that in a very short time the pressure thus 
imparted would so far destroy the integrity of the spinal cord 
that a cure would be altogether impossible. 
STRUMOUS ENLARGEMENT OF THE BRONCHIAL 
LYMPHATIC GLANDS OF A HORSE. 
By Professor Varnell, Royal Veterinary College, London. 
The following case was communicated to me by Mr. 
Hogben, student at the Royal Veterinary College, who 
likewise brought me a portion of the diseased organs taken 
from the horse for my inspection. He informed me that the 
case occurred in the practice of his brother, to whom he was 
indebted for its history. Having examined the specimen, I 
thought it possessed sufficient interest to the pathologist to 
be worth recording; and for the same reason I was induced 
to lay it before the members of the Veterinary Medical 
