REPORTS OF CASES. 
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liquor arsenicalis, 3 ss, ter in die. I saw the case every day 
for four or five days, and it was quite a surprise to me one 
morning’ to find my patient with a case of acute lymphangitis 
of the left hind leg. Some careful inquiries elicited the infor¬ 
mation that the owner from the kindness of his heart had dis¬ 
obeyed my instructions and had been giving the horse twelve 
quarts of corn meal per day (to keep his strength up). I felt 
somewhat chagrined at not receiving better treatment from the 
owner, but said nothing and abstracted three quarts of blood 
from the jugular, administered a capsule containing aloes pulv., 
C) vi, calomel, gr xx, and told them not to allow any exercise, 
and I would see the case next morning 5 but, alas, an officious 
friend got in his work and advised the owner that all that ailed 
the horse was “a sprain,” and he had better give him plenty of 
exercise and he would work out of it. 
When I called next day to see the horse the owner’s wife 
gave me the above facts in a somewhat shamefaced way, and, 
like Othello, I found my occupation gone. 
Sequel. After about three months I was making my rounds 
of the milk farms on an inspecting tour, and in a vacant field 
saw my whilom patient. The proprietor of the farm said he 
had been given to him and wanted to know if I could do any¬ 
thing for him. I made a careful examination and found some 
thickening as a result of previous lymphangitis, but the animal 
was very lame in the opposite foot (right one). Upon looking 
at the foot the sole was found to protrude enough to make the 
convexity touch the ground before the walls. I advised destroy¬ 
ing the horse, and told the owner to bring me the leg and foot 
(right one), which he did, and I made a median longitudinal 
section as near through the centre of the os pedis as possible, 
and found that bone, instead of being in an oblique direction, 
nearly perpendicular, caused by a growth of horn backward 
from the inner face of the front wall about the upper third, 
with an area of hypertrophied coronary substance immediately 
above it, showing much cicatricial tissue and evidence of many 
punctures by the heel calk of the opposite foot. I have since 
learned that the horse had a confirmed habit of standing with 
the left heel resting on the right coronet. ^ 
SANMETTO IN CANINE CYSTITIS. 
By G. L. Barnaby, V.vS., Mason, Mich. 
^ I am more thoroughly convinced each day of my life that 
it is impossible for a man to keep fully abreast with the great 
