636 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
be considered, as Nocard says, the best method of treatment to 
which one can have recourse. 
A Hat-Pin in the GBsophagus. —Mr. A. Brookbanks 
had this peculiar case in a kitten which he had castrated some 
three months before, and which was brought back to him with 
the report that he could not eat. The little fellow was lame on 
the right fore leg and had on that side of the neck a swelling, 
which on being opened revealed the presence of a sharp point. 
This was grasped with forceps and carefully drawn out. It 
proved to be a lady’s hat-pin (six inches long) which had been 
swallowed and had reached the upper part of the neck and made 
its way through the oesophagus to the exterior by the expulsive 
efforts of the kitten.— i^Veterinary Record.') 
Lameness Due to Hypertrophy of the Lower End of 
THE Smalu Metacarpau Bones. —This cause of lameness has 
already been observed on several occasions by Veterinarian J. 
A. Nunn, and in confirmation of the correctness of his observa¬ 
tion, records another case, in which the lameness was relieved by 
the simple operation of excision of the hypertrophied bone. Mr. 
F. E. Place, however, records also cases of lameness due to the 
same cause, but, instead of the surgical interference of osteotomy, 
has obtained satisfactory results by the application of pyro- 
puncture, blisters and rest. B}^ this treatment he has also ob¬ 
tained a reduction in the size of the hypertrophied bone in one 
case .—{Vetermary Record}) 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Procekdings of the United States Veterinary Medical Association, Session^ 
1897. Kdited by the Publication Committee, W. L Williams, Chairman, Cornell 
University, Ithaca, N. Y. Kansas City: Printed for the Association, 
We have received from Secretary Stewart a copy of the 
above work, and a careful perusal of its literary and typograph¬ 
ical construction conveys a very gratifying impression of the 
work of the committee, especially when one is familiar with the 
obstacles which had to be surmounted and the record-breaking 
velocity with which it reached the hands of the members. 
When the Chairman announced in his annual report that he 
would have the “ Proceedings ” ready for delivery within forty- 
five days after the close of the meeting he did not then know 
that such a task would devolve upon his own unaided shoulders, 
but when the Convention was in session he found that the Sec¬ 
retary of the association, who is a member of the Publication 
