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REPORTS OF CASES. 
My experience with eserine in parturient apoplexy has been 
that it helped them along to the place where so many of those 
cases go—the boneyard. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
“ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner, but his skill dies poith him. By 
recording his observations, he adds to the knowledge of his profession, and assists by his 
facts in building tip the solid edifice of pathological science.” 
EXTENSIVE INJURIES TO FACIAL AND CRANIAL BONES, WITH 
RECOVERY. 
By D. J. Halloran, M. D. C. , Oconto, Wis. 
Thursday evening, July 28, I was called four miles into the 
country, and upon arriving I found that a horse had run away 
and came in contact with the outer guard of a mowing machine, 
with the cutting bar standing perpendicular, the guard pene¬ 
trating the frontal bone on the right side and close to the med¬ 
ian line, breaking the superior turbinated bone and entering 
the cribriform plate of the ethmoid. The horse presumably 
forcibly raised his head, and pulled a part of the cribriform 
bone downward, exposing the brain and plowing through the 
frontal, nasal, superior maxillary and lachrymal bones, extend¬ 
ing downward as far as the infra-orbital foramen, then tear¬ 
ing the skin and underlying soft tissues, and terminating at the 
nasal opening. Making an unfavorable prognosis, and the 
owner wishing to give the animal any chance that he might 
have, I proceeded to remove all fragments of bone. I removed 
eight pieces varying in size from i in. square downward. I 
cleansed the wound, and, filling the same with antiseptic gauze 
and sewing the skin over it, the head presented a fairly good 
appearance. Before leaving I observed slight nasal hemor¬ 
rhage, but thinking it of little importance I left, requesting the 
owner, that, if the horse lived for eight days, to send him to my 
hospital. Saturday, July 30, I was informed that the hemor¬ 
rhage did not cease. Upon arriving at the farm I found the 
horse very weak from loss of blood ; the visible membranes 
pale. I at once proceeded to arrest the hemorrhage, which 
yielded readily. ^ I should have added that before that the 
wound communicated with ’ the buccal cavity by separating 
the soft tissue from the bone and opening at the second molar 
tooth. One peculiar fact is that the horse at no time refused 
food or drink. Nine days after the accident he was brought to 
