REPORTS OF CASES. 
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my hospital, where I gave him my special attention, he making 
a good recovery. About Aug. 20, an abscess appeared on the 
left side of the median line on a level with the orbital arch. I 
liberated a small amount of pus and from which the discharge 
continued, and on Sept. 12 the horse was returned. Upon ex¬ 
ploring I discovered a piece of loose bone, which I removed. 
There was also unmistakable evidence that at the time of the 
accident there had been a transverse fracture of the frontal bone, 
including the orbital arch. The horse has been regularly at 
work since Oct. i, and only a small scar remains, together with 
a small elongated osseous deposit, marking the location of the 
last mentioned fracture. 
I make this report simply to show to what extent an animal 
may be injured and recover his former usefulness. 
SPRINGHAI.T AND MKTATARSAD TENOTOMY. 
By Wm. N. Colman, D. V. S., Sterling, Rice Co., Kansas. 
As a point in the statistical argument in favor of this mode 
of treatment of the disease known as springhalt, I have followed 
the directions laid down by Degive on seven head of horses. 
I have performed the division of the tendon of the lateral ex¬ 
tensor of the phalanges on these horses with springhalt in 
various degrees, and have obtained the following results : Four 
recovered completely, and the other three showed a very satis¬ 
factory improvement—almost a complete recovery. Metatarsal 
tenotomy is a simple and harmless operation, and I think that 
it offers sufficient chances for success to encourage its perform¬ 
ance and to justify its adoption into the domain of common 
practice, if guided by the skill of a qualified man. I hope to 
hear from some of my brothers of the profession on this opera¬ 
tion. _ 
TREATMENT OF OPEN JOINT BY ANTISEPTIC BLISTERING.* 
By Dr. J. Curtis Michener, Colmar, Pa. 
Having reported a few cases of open joint, treated with an 
antiseptic blister, would like to add one more. On the iith of 
last August, Mr. A. G. Haldeman’s high-spirited horse of Line 
Uexington was being bedded by his twelve-year-old son, who 
pricked the horse at the fetlock. He made a bound forward 
and gave a violent kick, running a prong into the postero-ex- 
terior part of the thigh, the end of the handle striking in corner 
of the stall. The fork remaining in, the horse continued kick- 
* Reported to late meeting Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Association. 
