REPORTS OF CASES. 
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probably a kick. I should have said dog had been absent not 
much over an hour. 
I lanced the tumor in four or five places, bathed with hot 
water all night, followed by boracic acid wash. Was able to 
drink next morning and did so ravenously. Ate next day. 
Should I call it ranula ? 
[If the tumor incised was cystic in character it was a “ ran¬ 
ula ” ; if it was solid, it then belonged to some other class of 
tumor, whose nature could be demonstrated by the microscope. 
—Editor.] 
DILATATION OF THE (ESOPHAGUS IN A STANDARD-BRED WEAN¬ 
LING COLT. 
By E, M. Nighbert, V. S., Mt. Sterling, Ill. 
A standard-bred weanling had been noticed very much ema¬ 
ciated and unthrifty. It was unable to partake of any food ex¬ 
cept from nursing its mother, which was its only sustenance. 
It was sold very cheap at public auction and taken away from 
its mother. After forty-eight hours it was seen to grow weaker. 
I was called and found on the left side of the neck a swelling 
in the situation of the oesophagus as large as my arm, commenc¬ 
ing near the pharnyx and increasing in size to opposite the 
sixth or seventh cervical vertebra.- There was a foetid breath 
and a discharge of partly decomposed food from the nose, which 
it had tried to swallow. 
Upon manipulation the enlargement seemed to be filled with 
air, and no pain was evinced. I gave an unfavorable prognosis 
and ordered warm milk given with beef tea occasionally, and a 
little whiskey, hoping to improve the patient so that I could re¬ 
sort to some sort of an operation. 
Death took place thirty-six hours after my examination. It 
was held for several hours for autopsy, but I was unable to 
make one on account of other business. I am unable to trace 
or find out the cause of the trouble in this case, only that two 
months previous to death the patient was noticed to be dull and 
unthrifty and partook of no food except from its mother. 
A FRACTURE WITHOUT CREPITUS. 
By Francis Abele, V. S., Quincy, Mass. 
Was called to a horse that was on a four-horse team, used in 
the granite business. One of the heavy blocks fell off and onto 
him. When he was extricated from the resulting tangle it was 
found that he walked on three lees, the off front one beine com- 
