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that this special meeting was called for the purpose of taking 
action in regard to the National Convention to be held in Chicago 
on the 12th of December. 
The meeting being open for remarks, much active discussion 
followed by nearly all the members present, after which, owing 
to the time being so short, and that the State societies had 
not been consulted as to the wisdom of such a course, a motion 
that we send a delegate or delegates to the National Convention, 
was defeated by a vote of 11 to 6. W. Horace Hoskins. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
FATAL WOUND OF THE NECK BY GNAWING. 
New Rochelle, Oct. 24th, 1883. 
Editor Veterinary Review: 
Dear Sir : — The circumstance about to be described is the 
first of its kind that has come to my knowledge, being a wound 
that could not be sutured, the tissue being entirely destroyed or 
eaten away. Thinking the case of interest, I forward it for pub¬ 
lication. 
There was sent to me a bay gelding for treatment, which by 
his action and form I thought might be a ridgling, and so took 
extra precautions in securing him in my stable. On the night of 
the 13th he succeeded in getting loose, when he then had free 
access to my mare. She being secured, could not protect herself, 
and on my arrival at the stable in the morning, I found the geld¬ 
ing in the stall with my mare, both in a profuse perspiration. In 
examining the mare I found that the muscles of the right cervical 
region (both deep and superficial) had been completely eaten 
away, through the cervical ligament to muscles of left side, to 
the extent of 12 to 15 inches in length. The animal had then 
commenced to eat on the left side, which made an opening 
directly through the neck, nearly 4 inches in diameter, exposing 
the cervical angle and part of the cartilage of prolongment of the 
scapula. There was nothing left, comparatively speaking, of 
muscles supporting the head, but the furuncular portion of the 
