CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS. 
545 
Looking at the coxa from above, it would appear that the 
fracture had involved merely the tuberosity of the ilium, its 
superior face being perfect. Upon examining its inferior face, 
however, the true extent of the injury was readily seen. A large 
piece of the iliac surface was included in the fracture, so that the 
whole resembled an isosceles triangle, the base of which was 
formed by the tuberosity, while the apex extended to the middle 
of the inferior face of the ilium. As the ilio-muscular artery 
passed directly over the apex of the triangle, the lateral borders 
of which were very sharp, it is readily seen how the laceration 
occurred. 
CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS* 
By Prof. A. Large, M.D,, M.R.C.V.S. 
The object of this Appendix is, to give a brief description of 
several diseases of Horses not mentioned in the body of the work, 
and inasmuch as they are not alluded to in foreign works on vet¬ 
erinary subjects, they may be looked upon as indigenous , or pecu¬ 
liar to this country. 
In the vast area of the United States, there may be more 
indigenous diseases than will be considered here, though, as a 
general rule, the maladies peculiar to any one country are few in 
number; but the absence of the statistics of diseases and their 
nature, owing to the very small number of educated veterinarians, 
renders it difficult to arrive at definite conclusions. It is to be 
regretted that we are not better acquainted with the diseases to 
which the horses of different sections are liable; these, if care¬ 
fully noted, would enable us to arrive at some important patho¬ 
logical conclusions. This end, however, cannot be obtained until 
a sufficient number of qualified practitioners are scattered from 
one end of the country to the other ; u a consummation devoutly 
to be wished.” 
The first disease in regard to importance, on account of its 
fatality and the number of its victims, is one that, at the present 
*Reprint from Stonehenge on the Horse. 
