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offensive. A probe pushed in the tract reached down about an 
inch, and was stopped by a hard, rough, immovable body. There 
seemed to be no inflammatory condition in the part. The right 
temple w r as larger than the left. 
A diagnosis of dental cyst was made with a doubtful progno¬ 
sis. Operated with difficulty, the tumor, which proved to be a 
molar, imperfectly and irregularly developed, was removed, 
after being dislocated from its surroundings. The extraction was 
accompanied by that of two plates of bony pieces, probably por¬ 
tions of the external layer of the squamous portion of the tem¬ 
poral bones. The wound was dressed with carbolized balls of 
oakum for five days, and on the sixth day an unsuccessful attempt 
was made to remove what seemed to be another molar protruding 
in the bottom of the cavity left by the first tooth. For a few 
days following the animal seemed to be doing well, but twenty- 
one days from the first operation she seemed to have some diffi¬ 
culty in eating. She has had paralysis of the muscles of the right 
side of the face. This was soon complicated by an extension of 
the nervous trouble, which manifested itself by a complete hemi¬ 
plegia of the right side. This condition assumed a fatal aspect a 
few days after, in symptoms of total hemiplegia of the left side, 
and the animal was destroyed. 
At the post-mortem examination of the head, it was found that 
the fistula extended down to the superior extremity of the molar 
left at the bottom of the wound. A section of the head showed a 
convex projection towards the cavity of the brain, pressing upon 
the meninges and the corresponding brain substance, where a 
depression was found. This projection was formed by an abnormal 
molar, imbedded between the two layers of the squamous tem¬ 
poral bone. The number of molars in the mouth was normal— 
twelve in each jaw .—Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire. 
TUMOR OF THE BRAIN IN A STALLION. 
By M. Chuohij. 
A stallion, six years old, was found one evening in his stall, 
with symptoms of vertigo, which subsided, to reappear after one 
