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septum nasi on both sides, especially the right, presented the 
characteristic chancres of chronic glanders, some of them, how¬ 
ever, having a more marked acute appearance. The turbinated 
bones presented also some calcareous deposits, with here and there 
little ulcerative spots. The occipital bone, on both its external 
and internal, and the atlas, when boiled, presented beautiful lesions 
of caries, extending over their external surface. 
In neither of these cases was a post-mortem examination made 
of the respiratory apparatus. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
QUESTIONABLE OPERATION. . 
By E. Mink, Rochester, N. Y. 
Editor of Veterinary Review :— 
To-day I read in The Archives of Comparative Medicine and 
Surgery, July number, 1880, pages 168 and 169, the report of 
cases one and two, diagnosed as fibroid tumors, and found to be 
such after operations. I noticed that in case one the tumor 
weighed five and a half pounds, microscopical report not ren¬ 
dered ; and further, it is not stated that the interior of said tumor 
was examined for abscess of inspissated or liquid pus, neither is 
there any thing said about such examination in case two. Now it 
occurs to us that it is probable from the history of these cases, 
that both the tumors were merely walled-in abscesses or fibrous 
tumors, such as are described by Williams in his “Surgery,” on 
page 397. If so, the operation of removing the entire tumor was 
wholly unnecessary, and would be practised in such cases only by 
a novice in the veterinary profession. 
Many years ago, and long before we saw even Williams’work, 
we were called upon to deal with such tumors. In our verdancy, 
in 1860, we dissected one out located in about the same region as 
described in case one. It was about the size of a large goose egg. 
After removing it we examined its interior and found it contained 
