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met in young dogs, and often the cause of epileptic fits, but with 
that exception all the organs were found healthy. The interest 
ing lesion is in the appearance of the vertebral column. On ex¬ 
amination you will notice the shape of the bony column, and also 
the fact that a fracture had taken place at the dorsal region. The 
eleventh vertebrae has its body crushed, and no apparent work of 
repair is to be detected, even after over four weeks of treatment 
since the accident happened—a condition which is certainly due 
to the diseased state of the bony system. 
FRACTURE OF THE FOREARM.—RECOVERY. 
By Henry Shafer, Farrier, Third Cav., U. S. A. 
[The following report was made to the Quartermaster General 
in Washington, who has kindly furnished us with a copy of it.— 
Ed.]: 
On March 1st, 1882, a horse for which Captain George A. 
Drew, 3d Cavalry, is responsible, had by some accident fractured 
the forearm of the right leg. The horse was put in slings, and 
after the fever subsided the leg was set by extension and counter 
extension, after which the leg was encased in plaster of Paris. 
Owing to the horse being in good health, and the fracture being 
transverse, a complete cure has been effected. To-day the horse 
is as -serviceable as he was before the accident. 
ENORMOtfS DEVELOPMENT OF THE CaPSULA ADIPOSA ENFOLD¬ 
ING THE LEFT KIDNEY OF A STEER. 
By Julius Gertii, D.V.S. 
On the 27th day of June, 1881, while passing through Centre 
Market, in Newark, N. J., my attention was drawn to a large 
mass of so-called kidney fat enfolding the left kidney of a large 
steer attached to a hind quarter. Bystanders judged that it 
would measure about 3J feet longitudinally and at least 2 feet in 
diameter. Unfortunately, no rule was at hand with which to 
obtain exact measurement. At my request this mass of solid 
