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D.V.S., of the graduating class, and the address to the class was 
then delivered by Prof. R. G. Doremus, of Bellevue Medical 
College. 
The benediction by Rev. Dr. Dorman closed the exercises, 
and everybody retired, feeling pleased and proud of the success 
which had once more crowned the labors and demonstrated the 
good work done by the institution. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
HOSPITAL RECORDS. 
By R. H. Harrison, D.V.S., late House Surgeou. 
MELANOTIC TUMOR ON THE SACRO LUMBAR PLEXUS—PARTIAL 
PARALYSIS. 
This was one of the most interesting cases that was admitted 
into the hospital during the year, especially important and worthy 
of record on account of the rarity of the lesion, as well as the 
limited extent of the literature of veterinary science pertaining 
to the deranged functions of the spinal cord. 
The subject was a gray gelding, 9 years old, and weighing 
about 1,500 pounds in good flesh, who first came under observa¬ 
tion at the free clinics. The horse had been purchased by his pres¬ 
ent owner, a few weeks before, for a trifling amount, with the 
hope that by rest and treatment he would be able to do slow 
work. A severe blister had been applied over the loins, but it 
had been attended with no beneficial results. All the owner knew 
about the case was that the animal had received a fall, and had 
never recovered from it. The peculiar symptom manifested was 
a striking irregularity in the action of the hinder extremities, more 
marked on the left side than on the right; there was a loss of 
co-ordination in movement, and the patient presented symptoms 
similar to those described under locomotor ataxia. In bringing 
the hind leg forward, it was moved as a whole stiffly, and when 
placed on the ground would be carried out of its natural course 
in extensive abduction and circumduction ; in turning round, he 
would nearly fall, and to make him back was almost impossible 
