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REPORTS OF CASES. 
partake of bran mashes and of toning the bowels so as to get a 
little more frequent passage, I prescribed the following: 
• Tr. gentianae, 
“ cinchonae aa fl § ii. 
“ nucis vomicae fl3 iv- 
Spts vinirect. dil., fl § xii. 
M. Sig. Two fluid ounces every six hours. 
This was continued for four days, with the desired effect, 
the horse eating at this time three and four quarts of bran in a 
mash, three times a day, besides considerable hay, grass, carrots 
and apples, and consequently defecation became more regular and 
often. But the interesting part of it to-me and the circumstance 
that prompted me to report this case is, that up to the eleventh 
day, during which the horse had partaken of ahsohttely 7 to oats^ 
the stools continued to contain a large percentage of undigested 
oats. At this juncture I prescribed : 
It Powd. gentianae rad., 
• ‘ anisi fruct., 
“ fcenugrek, aa § iii. 
“ arsenicum oxidum album, 3 i. 
M. Fiat charts. No. xii. Sig. One powder in bran mash morning and evening. 
and instructed the attendant to feed the horse no oats until I 
had floated his molars, which I did two days later, finding them 
on examination very irregular and undoubtedly the predisposing 
cause of the attack. 
CYSTOMA DERMATIS. 
By L. E. WiLLYOUNG, D.V.S., Buffalo, N. Y. 
Subject. —Cross-bred mastiff and hound, aged three years. 
History .—Unobtainable in detail. Swelling present for over a 
year, opened repeatedly, always refilling again. Entered at hos¬ 
pital February i, 1897. Examination revealed a soft pendulous 
mass, devoid of hair, with numerous old cicatrixes on surface. 
Mass measuring over 16 inches in circumference at its largest 
part with a base attachment on the posterior aspect of the ulna 
measuring 3^ inches. 
On February 4 the dog was prepared for operation, a 5 per 
cent, solution of eucaine (methyl-ester) was injected, hypoder¬ 
mically, and the mass removed, after making an elliptical inci¬ 
sion on each side of the mass, vessels ligated, and skin sutured 
with gut. Borated gauze and iodoform dressing applied. 
Upon, dissection of the cyst, it was found to contain 37 
ounces of albuminous straw fluid, of alkaline reaction, interior 
of cyst having numerous • distinct cavities, the walls of which 
