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Dr. Miller reported a very interesting case of total paralysis, 
resulting from a fracture of the parietal bone, with partial dislo¬ 
cation of the second intervertebral articulation of the neck, the re¬ 
sult of a fall and complete somersault. After reports of other 
cases from the members, the meeting adjourned. 
W. Horace Hoskins, Secy. 
Cerebro-spinal meningitis has broken out in Philadelphia and 
Camden, H. J., to some extent, the writer having had several 
cases within the past few weeks. Those seen were either along 
the river front or down in the lower parts of the city, where sur¬ 
face drainage only existed. 
W. Horace Hoskins. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
A CASE OF FARCY. 
Morrison, Whiteside Co., III., 
March 20th, 1883. 
Editor Veterinary Review: 
My Dear Sir, —As you thought that my last feeble effort as 
a contribution to the American Veterinary Review was worthy 
of a place in the last volume, I will now send another case that 
was of much interest to me at the time, on account of its occur¬ 
ring as it did—a case diagnosed as farcy. 
The case as follows : As I was passing through a neighboring 
pasture on one of my visits, I noticed that one of the horses pas¬ 
turing in the ffeld was very bad with the strangles; a very large 
abscess, formed under the jaw, was discharging thick yellow pus, 
streaked with blood. The animal affected was about fifteen years 
old, with no former disease to trouble her. The other horses in 
the field were from one to three years old—six in number. I was 
interested in the affected animal, as it was near my own place. I 
stopped as I went through the pasture and examined the mare, 
made my own prognosis, and notified the owner to take care of his 
sick animal so that none of the other colts might get inoculated 
with what I pronounced malignant virus ; but the owner thought 
