REPORTS OF OASES. 
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been under my care, I think, on two different occasions for exces¬ 
sive nasal discharges, and was an animal that was very suscepti¬ 
ble to catarrhal affection. The teamster who had charge of the 
horse, an old, careful man, had been sick a week or two, and a 
younger man had driven the horse in the old man’s place. The 
foreman told me the young man was a careful driver, and the 
horse had not done any extra work. The work the horse per¬ 
formed the day before his death, was rolling, which the foreman 
seemed to think was quite light work. 
¥m. Cutting. 
5 North Avenue , Rochester . 
INCISED WOUND OF THE METACARPUS. 
Editor Review :— 
Having recently had a case which I thought would be inter¬ 
esting to the profession, I have made a tew notes which enables 
me to furnish you with a brief account of a serious injury and its 
results, and if of sufficient interest you are at liberty to insert it 
in the Review. 
I should have forwarded it ere this but awaited a satisfactory 
progress of the animal’s ability to perform his duty, which he 
now does with perfect ease. On the morning of the 19th of 
July last, an aged gelding was brought to my infirmary, bleeding 
profusely from a wound inflicted by the driver of an ice wagon 
with his ax, to the outer and posterior part of the off metacarpal 
bone, whether wilful or accidental—though I suspect the for¬ 
mer—has not been proven. 
The wound extended from the head of the bone to the bulb 
of the small metacarpal, and was so deep that I laid two fingers 
between the bone and the tendons, touching the integument on 
the inner part of the limb. The horse had then lost about eight 
quarts of blood, he having travelled nearly four blocks from 
where the accident occurred to my infirmary, drawing an empty 
fuel wagon. 
I immediately placed a tourniquet over the knee, bringing the 
