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nity, and had him make an examination. His diagnosis’”was frac¬ 
ture of the “ os-corona.” 
Post Mortem :—Animal destroyed ; leg examined ; found all 
the bones healthy except the navicular, which was in an advanced 
state of disease. I then examined the soft parts, and found I 
had complete separation of the fibro-cartilaginous ligament, to¬ 
gether with the perforatus tendon, from the convexity of the 
pastern and superior extremity of the “ os corona,” taking away 
portions of the bone, with the ligaments ; and which condition 
would give rise to all the symptoms presented, and I have the 
pleasure of presenting it to you to-night in its imperfect con¬ 
dition. 
CASE OF LESION OF THE BOWELS. 
By William Cutting, V.S. 
September 19tli, 1878, between four and five o’clock, a.m., I 
was called to attend a large grey horse, the property of the 
Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, of this city. The animal was sup¬ 
posed to be well over night. The foreman saw the beast at nine 
o’clock the evening before. It had eaten its cut feed, and stood 
eating its hay as well as any horse in the barn, and was appa¬ 
rently as well as usual. The watchman passes through the barn 
once an hour during the night, and saw nothing wrong until 
about 3 o’clock, a.m., when he called the foreman, who at once 
placed the animal under treatment, administering before I arrived 
two drenches composed as follows : 
a 
Hyp. Sulph. Soda, ii oz. 
Tine. Opii, i oz. 
Eth. Sulph. “ Squibbs,” i oz. 
Ess. Anise, i oz. 
Aqua, q. s., 
mix, in one dose, and had the animal led round. I arrived about five 
o’clock, and found the beast still under motion. I ordered the 
patient into a shed well littered with straw, 
