REPORT OF CASE. 
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“ I say seems to be restored; for in almost every case of this 
kind we find, on a careful examination, more or less diseased con¬ 
dition of the lungs, which is present in a latent form, but only 
waits the proper stimulus to make it the nucleus of a contagion 
which may infect whole neighborhoods and bring about all the 
terrible calamities resultant on such outbreaks.” And “ Cattle 
once infected should not be kept for any purpose, but if kept 
should remain apart from all others until fat enough to kill, and 
be disposed of in this manner.” 
How, in the first place, to what does he refer as being pres en 
in a latent form, and what would he consider a proper stimulus 
to make such a subject the nucleus of contagion ? And secondly, 
why does he recommend that cattle once affected should not be 
kept for any purpose, but if kept why so isolated from other 
cattle ? 
Ilis experience may enable him to explain these points to the 
edification of other members of the profession, as well as to 
Y ours, respectfully, 
L. McLean, Y.S. 
Brooklyn, June 18, 1878. 
REPORT OF CASE. 
REMOVAL OF THE LEFT INFERIOR MAXILLA. 
By C. D. Smead, V.S., Logan, N. Y. 
Read before the Rochester Veterinary Medical Association. 
I send you a report of a case that I operated upon by way of 
experiment, which proved a success, although at the time I had but 
little or no hope of its terminating so well, and I will say, at th*e 
beginning, that I claim but little credit, as the operation was 
quite simple; and I attribute my success wholly to nature’s 
power of reproduction of bone. On the 22d of July, 1877, I 
was called to the farm of Peter Swartout, in Lodi, Seneca Co., to 
see a colt about four months of age. I found the tongue of the 
