REPORT OF TWO SURGICAL CASES. 
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been able to find a single case where the laceration was confined 
to the pillars. 
From the post-mortem lesions it leaves no question of doubt 
that the laceration occurred before the sickness of the animal. 
The occurrence was probably on March 9th, as she was used 
that day upon a heavy coal wagon over a slippery road, and it 
is reasonable to suppose that the laceration occurred during a 
heavy pull. 
If the symptoms manifested in this case are characteristic 
of diaphragmatic lacerations it would be very easy indeed to 
diagnose most of them. The lying down and making no effort 
to roll, pointing with nose over the affected region, constant 
pain, absence of tympany throughout the sickness, regular but 
deep respiration, the lying upon the sternum, with flexed knees 
not sitting dog-fashion as is often seen in acute indigestion 
and rupture of the stomach,—the anxious expression, the lop¬ 
ping ears, the disposition to lie in a cool place are all symptoms 
I have never witnessed in any other disease to such a marked 
degree. 
Authors in treating of rupture of the diaphragm speak of 
patients pawing, rapid respiration, sweating in the region of the 
diaphragm as being the diagnostic symptoms, all of which were 
absent in this case. • 
REPORT OF TWO SURGICAL CASES, 
TENOTOMY AND RESECTION OF NECROTIC PARTS OF THE SOFT 
TISSUES OF THE FROG CAUSED BY A NAIR. 
By Dr. Otto G. Noack, Reading, Pa. 
A Paper read before the meeting of the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion, at Franklin, Pa., Sept., 1897. 
On December 3, 1896, I was called to see a bay horse, 12 
years old, 16 hands. The owner, Mr. Fry, reported to me the 
horse had had to pull a very heavy load about six months ago 
and had limped ever since. By and by the leg shortened and he 
began to walk on the toe, then getting worse, being unable to 
