CEREUR0 SPINAL MENINGITIS-FUNGOSUS TOXICUM PARALYTICUS. 
port was written. It was a bay gelding, 16 hands high, 5 years 
old, with an exostosis in front of the coronet, well-defined, but of 
small size. The operation was a complete success. In this case 
deep firing was resorted to afterwards, so as to check the growth 
which was of recent origin. 
Summary .—It would seem, therefore, that this treatment 
should not be adopted in all cases with the hope of complete suc¬ 
cess, for • in those cases where the bony growth is extensive and 
gives rise to anchylosis, either of the pastern or coffin joint, lame¬ 
ness purely mechanical will follow. Where other modes of treat¬ 
ment fail, it should be used, for otherwise the lameness would be 
greater and the pain attending it more severe. It would be of 
advantage to fire deeply afterwards, to check the growth and 
favor absorption of the plastic deposit, which has a tendency to 
interfere with the action of the joints. 
The operation should not be condemned if the patient does 
not improve at once after the operation has been performed, as 
the force of habit, especially if the lameness has existed long, will 
render the animal lame when he first starts off. 
EXTRACTS FROM PAPERS 
Sent to the Meeting of the United States Veterinary Medical Association. 
CEREBRO SPINAL MENINGITIS—FUNGOSUS TOXICUM PARALYTICUS. 
By J. C. Michener, D.V.S. 
During two weeks of the middle part of April, we had in 
Hilltown and Hatfield townships, within a radius of four miles, 
a remarkable outbreak of what in this vicinity is called choking 
distemper—what is sometimes (I think) miscalled cerebro spinal 
meningitis. For want of a name, I call it fungosus toxicum 
paralyticus. You will recognize it by the symptoms. A horse 
will be in perfect health one hour, the next he will be observed to 
chew feebly and slowly and feebly drop cuds of masticated hay, 
unable to swallow. In his efforts to drink he will thrust his nose 
deeper into the water than usual and go through all the motions 
of deglutition without accomplishing it, the little water he is able 
to raise above the bolus of the tongue returning through the nos- 
