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mare probably kicked by another horse which got loose from 
its stall was found one morning with a cut over the forehead on 
the median line and measuring some 6 inches in length. 
Twenty-four hours after she showed evident indications of brain 
pressure : difficult motion, gait staggering, her head depressed, 
sight sound, pulse steady 45, temperature 105.i° F. The mare 
was quite restless when the wound was explored. Pressure on 
the right parietal bone produced convulsions, clenching of the 
teeth and nodding of the head. The following day the mare 
was chloroformed, and the wound being examined showed a 
cavity under the right temporal muscle, which being cut across 
exposed a piece of bone depressed and forced in nearly half an 
inch. This was removed at once and the cavity dressed anti- 
septically as thoroughly as possible. The animal at first ex¬ 
hibited some comfort from the removal of the pressing piece of 
bone, but she rapidly grew worse and died in the evening of the 
day she was operated upon. O11 examination of the skull it 
was noted that no fracture radiated from the depressed part, 
as might have been expected considering the age of the animal 
and the hardness of the bone. — [Vet. Record.') 
Foreign Body Under the Larynx of a Dog [By A. 
IVilsor , M. R. C. V. S .~\.—After one day’s hunting a dog was 
found unable to eat, with abundant flow of saliva. A splinter 
of wood had been found in the centre of the upper gums behind 
the incisors and a small wound on the left side‘of the frsenum 
of the tongue. The next day the throat began to swell, and the 
following day ulcerated, discharging a foetid sanguineous fluid. 
The swelling not subsiding, the author had another opportunity 
to examine the dog, and in probing the cavity of the abscess he 
felt a hard substance, which on removal proved to be a piece of 
hazel stick lying in the subcutaneous tissue slightly on the 
right side of the trachea. Ultimately the dog recovered rapidly. 
— (Vet. Record.) 
Foreign Body in the Rumen of a Cow [By R. O. F. 
Stewart ] .—Of course every one knows how much foreign bodies 
found in the rumen of large ruminants vary, and while all kinds 
of objects have been mentioned and the manifestations that they 
have produced been described, it seems that new cases can 
always be found. The author had been called to visit a cow 
which had been for a long time under treatment, was gradually 
growing worse, and, whether tuberculous or not, the question 
of killing her was to be decided by him. When she was ex¬ 
amined, Mr. Stewart, passing his hand over the left flank where 
