CORRESPONDENCE. 
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a small abscess not much larger than an acorn. We then con¬ 
cluded that its entire removal was unnecessary, and that it should 
have been thoroughly explored first with either needle, trocar or 
knife, for abscess. 
From that time to this, I have been called to treat many such 
tumors, some quite as large as described in case one, and in every 
instance where pus could be found by exploring, I have simply 
cut down upon the deeply walled-in abscesses, liberating the im¬ 
prisoned pus, and then injecting some stimulant or caustic to 
destroy the walls of the abscess or to cause adhesive inflammation 
of the same. And in all these cases (after having been thus 
treated), I have found these large tumefactions to gradually but 
surely disappear, proving, as I think, the tumors to consist largely 
of exuded lymph and hypertrophied tissues. 
By excision, important portions of muscular tissue are re¬ 
moved which may ever after interfere with normal muscular 
action. 
By the method of treatment last described, the integrity of 
muscular tissue is completely restored in a comparatively brief 
space of time. 
.Rochester, N. Y., July 20, 1880. 
SUICIDE IN A HORSE. 
By W. L. Zuiix, D.V.S. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir :—Having been requested to make a report of the 
following case, I beg leave to do so, as I think that the anatomical 
lesions found on post mortem examination may prove interesting 
to. the readers of the American Veterinary Review. For the 
want of a more appropriate cognomen, I am inclined to call this 
case one of suicide, and, although self-inflicted, can not discover 
that it was in accordance with the will of the animal. 
This accident happened on the 27th of April, 1880. The 
animal was a bay horse, eight years old, the property of Wm. I. 
Taylor of this city. He had just been fed his usual allowance 
