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faction, here is ail example of one of nature’s marvellous accom¬ 
plishments in conservative surgery. The band of ligamentous 
union of the two fragments and the new articular surfaces which 
have been formed for the play of these abnormally situated portions 
of bone, has enabled the animal to walk about with comparitive 
ease. 
Accompanying this report I send for the museum of the 
Veterinary College the dry specimens of this rare case as an 
auxiliary to the valuable and interesting collections of pathologi¬ 
cal specimens her museum is already invested with. 
[Di. Meyei will accept our thanks, not only for the specimens, 
but also for the veterinary instruments of primitive fabric which 
he lias sent us, and which have been added to the collection of 
the College. —Ed.] 
UNUSUAL MORTALITY AMONG SUCKLING COLTS. 
By N. S. Townshend, M.D. 
The number of young colts of a few days old that died the 
last spiing in central Ohio was unusual. In the absence of re¬ 
liable statistics we can merely give the impressions of intelligent 
farmers. One said that more than a fourth of all the colts foaled 
in his neighborhood had died when a week or two old, and after 
two or three days of illness. Another said that half the colts 
dropped within the range of his acquaintance had died. A third 
went so far as to say that three-fourths of all the colts dropped 
in his neighborhood had died. 
For this region, the spring was unusually wet and cold. 
Aftei the corn had been planted, much of it did not germinate ; 
from the coldness of the ground or late frosts many fields needed 
planting two or three times. Such was the character of the scni- 
son when most of the colts in this part of the country were 
dropped. 
With colts that died, the first t' 1 ing perceived to be wrong was 
lameness of one hock-joint. This joint would be found hot, 
swollen and painful, so that the colt could not stand, and giving 
the impression to the owner that it had been stepped on by the 
