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this title the author reports an outbreak of what we think would 
be called spinal meningitis in the United States, in which five 
horses out of a stable of sixteen animals had died with symp¬ 
toms and a history which are very similar to those which are 
observed in cases of spinal meningitis.— {^Rec. Med, VeL^ Dec.^ 
V/-) 
Temporary Deafness in the Horse \By Mr. F. Dn- 
mand ].—The driver of a horse harnessed to a cart had the 
habit, when driving and when the occasion presented to shoot 
birds flying within his reach. One day he met with a flock of 
partridges and shot at them. The horse showed no manifesta¬ 
tions of surprise, but, when stopped, failed to answer to the calls 
of the driver to resume his work. When the author saw him 
he was entirely indifferent to whatever took place round him, 
his ears were drooping and immobile, was indifferent to the 
voice of his master ; he was entirely deaf. This infirmity, 
however, was only temporary, it subsided and disappeared by 
itself without any treatment. It is said that the driver was also 
cured of his peculiar mode of going hunting.— (Rec. Med. Vet., 
Dec.^ p/.) 
ENGLISH REVIEW. 
Neck of Glass Bottle Lodged in Larynx. —The dan¬ 
gers connected with the use of glass bottles for the administra¬ 
tion of medicines to large animals have been mentioned time 
and again, the cases recorded of accidents are very numerous, 
and still, notwithstanding the progress made in veterinary 
pharmacology, the glass bottle has still its advocates. An in¬ 
teresting fatal case is recorded in the Veterinary Record in 
which a horse, being administered a drench, crushed the 
bottle and part of it, the neck and the shoulder, passed beyond 
the mouth. Where? Post-mortem only revealed. Examina¬ 
tions of the mouth, pressure on the throat, failed to locate them. 
But evidently the bottle was broken, portions of it were found 
which, gathered together, made it complete except the neck and 
shoulder, the symptoms indicating the presence of foreign 
bodies in the air passages. In a few words, the poor horse died 
after several days’ suffering, and the missing piece of the bottle 
was found firmly imbedded in the larynx. The smooth rounded 
end of the neck had passed first and the sharp pointed surfaces 
of the broken part were buried in the membrane and muscles of 
the pharynx. The free border of the epiglottis was sawn into 
