850 
VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
splint. The cylinder should have two taped holes, and the 
splint two plain and corresponding to these. The cylinder 
introduced into the medullary canal, the splint should be put in 
place and both held in place by screws running through them 
and the bone also .—^Annales de Med. Vet.) 
Queer Sequels of a Prick in the Foot [^By Mr. 
Coiireur ^.—As remarked by the author, the interest of this case 
rests principally on the pathogeny connected with it. It is that 
of a horse that has been lame for some time, though not enough 
to be unable to work, but which became so suddenly as to be 
almost disabled. At the examination of the foot, increased 
sensibility is found on the inside of the foot, only on a limited 
surface, and on paring the sole the opening of a tract, like that 
formed by the prick of a nail, is found and from which a dark 
greyish fluid is escaping. The sole is pared thin, flaxseed poul¬ 
tices are applied and five days after the horse returns to his 
work. Two weeks later, the lameness has returned, the symp¬ 
toms of the foot are the same as on the previous occasions and 
Mr. Conreur supposing that there is a little splint of necrotic 
bone proceeds to extirpate it. But instead of the bone he finds 
a white mass, round in shape, beanlike in appearance. Pressure 
on that mass gives rise to great pain ; its extraction is followed 
by an abundant haemorrhage. This tumor is white, semi-trans¬ 
parent and hard. The widest part is opaque and has a greyish 
centre. Cut into, it shows a white powder, surrounding a black 
point, a small piece of iron. To the microscope, the tumor is 
formed of horny, epithelial cells, without pigment. Recovery 
occurred rapidly afterwards .—[Annates de Med. Vet.) 
VETERINARY LEGISLATION IN NEW YORK. 
Mr. B. C. Brennan introduced in the New York Assembly 
on February 6th the following bill (No. 650), which was read 
once and referred to the Committee on Public Health : 
AN ACT 
IN RELATION TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATE LIVE STOCK 
SANITARY COMMISSION, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE CON¬ 
TROL AND SUPPRESSION OF TUBERCULOSIS AND OTHER 
DANGEROUS DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
The People of the State of New York, represented hi Senate and Assem¬ 
bly, do enact as follows : 
Section i. There shall be established as part of the State 
Government a commission to be known as the “ State Live 
