American Veterinary Review, 
NOVEMBER, 1880. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
PROSPER!). 
MALIGNANT TUMOR OF THE FACE AND NASAL CAVITIES—DEATH 
BY STARVATION AND REPEATED SECONDARY HEMORRHAGES. * 
By A. Liautard, M.D., V.S. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen : 
The specimen I have to show you this evening is one of mal¬ 
ignant tumor of the face and nasal cavities, obtained from a very 
valuable animal, of great reputation on the trotting turf, and 
which may be known to you by the reports which appeared at 
different times in the newspapers. It is the head of the trotting 
horse Prospero, which I condemned as incurable in May last, and 
which was allowed to die from starvation through mistaken kind¬ 
ness of his owner, imposed upon by ignorance and charlatanism. 
The history of the case is, in a few words, as follows : Some 
# Paper read before the New York Pathological Society. 
