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swallow painful and difficult, although he evidently did get some 
down. In spite of all we could do he became daily more 
emaciated, when, to put an end to his misery, he was finally 
killed about three months from the time he was attacked. 
The head and neck were brought to me for examination. 
Careful dissection showed nothing to account for the trouble 
until the guttural pouch on the left side was readied, when a cir¬ 
cular tumor, about two inches in diameter and three-fourths of 
an inch thick, was found attached to the inner wall. The posterior 
extremity of the long horn of the os hyoides was also highly in¬ 
flamed and hypertrophied to three times its natural size. 
CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS. 
By the Same. 
A small-sized bay mare belonging to Mr. Lam, of East Bos¬ 
ton. She stood alone in an old stable, low and damp. I imme¬ 
diately recognized the case as one of spinal—or rather cerebral— 
meningitis, as described by Prof. Large in T/ieVeterincn'ian some 
fifteen years ago, and also by myself in the same journal several 
years later (his description of the disease being at the time un¬ 
known to me). She stood rather quietly, but persistently, trying 
to swallow water; but although the muscles of deglutition seemed 
to go through the motion of swallowing, the quantity of water in 
the pail remained unchanged. Next day she went down, and of 
course I supposed it was all up with her, but as she seemed to 
rest well, advised the owner to keep at work on her with gargles 
of carbolic acid solution with capsicum added, stimulating appli¬ 
cations externally, and general good nursing. Judge of my sur¬ 
prise, on calling two days afterwards, to find her up, walking 
around and eating and drinking quite well. About two days 
after this I was again called, and found her down, unable to <ret 
U P—this time with regular spinal meningitis (so called); pulse 
38; urine and foeces retained, and unable to use her hind parts 
enough to get up. We placed her in slings, and she made a good 
recovery. 
