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REPORTS OF CASES. 
and from outward appearances did not seem to be suffering any 
inconvenience from the presence of the aneurism. 
Ttibermlar Metritis. — The animal was suffering from 
chronic tuberculosis. There was enlargement of the broncho- 
oesophageal, posterior mediastinal, mesenteric and mammary 
lymphatics, with the presence of tubercles upon the diaphragm, 
the abdominal viscera and in the pelvic cavity. Slight presence 
of tubercles about the ovaries and external surface of the uterus. 
The ovaries had undergone fatty degeneration. Fallopian tubes 
slightly thickened. The uterus showed traces of chronic in- 
ffamniation. Walls of the uterus and the cervix very much 
hypertrophied, with an offensive mucous discharge exuding 
from the cervix. The body of the uterus and both cornua were 
completely filled with caseous material, probably degenerated 
tubercular pus. 
AMPUTATION OF THE TONGUE. 
By W. J Martin, V. S. , Kankakee, Ills. 
Some time ago a farmer brought to my infirmary for treat¬ 
ment a black mare, aged about six years. She had been suffer¬ 
ing for some time with poll-evil and fistula of the withers. On 
the road to town the mare had proven very refractory about 
leading, and the owner, to make her ‘‘ keep up,” had passed the 
tie-rope of the halter around the lower jaw, and over the tongue 
also. Upon arriving at my office, and removing the rope from 
the mare’s mouth, it was discovered that the animal’s tongue 
had been badly lacerated by the rope ; so much so,- in fact, that 
amputation of the organ would be necessary. I removed with 
the ecraseur nearly five inches of the tongue. 
The mare seemed to suffer no inconvenience from the loss of 
her tongue. This was the first time that I ever saw a horse 
with part of the tongue removed. I had always heard that 
horses whose tongues had been partly cut off could not drink 
without plunging the nose deep into the water, up nearly to the 
eyes, and, further, that they could not eat grain without wasting 
more or less of it ; and as a consequence they were hard to keep 
in good condition. This mare drank water in a perfectly natu¬ 
ral manner, and could eat hay and grain apparently as well as 
if she had had none of her tongue removed. She took on flesh 
quite rapidly and after operation the poll-evil and fistula healed 
up permanently. From this it would appear that the tongue, 
or, at least, only a small portion of pt, is essential for the well 
being of a horse’s existence. 
