g.

_Treatment._--Excision of the tumor, including part of the nerve above
and below, and then treat it like any other simple wound.

INJURIES TO NERVES.

These may consist in wounding, bruising, laceration, stretching,
compression, etc. The symptoms which are produced will depend upon the
extent, seat, and character of the injury. Recovery may quickly take
place, or it may lead to neuritis, neuroma, or spinal or cerebral
irritation, which may result in tetanus, paralysis, and other serious
derangements. In all diseases, whether produced by some form of external
violence or intrinsic causes, the nerves are necessarily involved, and
sometimes it is to a primary injury of them that the principal fault in
movement or change of nutrition of a part is due. It is often difficult
or impossible to discover that an injury to a nerve has been inflicted,
but whenever this is possible it may enable us to remedy that which
otherwise would result in permanent evil. Treatment should consist in
relieving compression, in hot fomentations, the application of anodyne
liniments, excision of the injured part, and rest.

FORAGE POISONING, OR SO-CALLED CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS.

This disease prevails among horses in nearly all parts of the United
States. Its appearance in America is by no means of recent occurrence,
for the malady was reported by Large in 1847, by Michener in 1850, and
by Liautard in 1869 as appearing in both sporadic and enzootic form in
several of the Eastern States. Since then the disease has occurred
periodically in many States in all sections of the country, and has been
the subject of numerous investigations and publications by a number of
the leading men of the veterinary profession. It is prevalent with more
or less severity every year in certain parts of the United States, and
during the year 1912 the Bureau of Animal Industry received urgent
requests for help from Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina,
Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, and West Virginia. While
in 1912 the brunt of the disease seemed to fall on Kansas and Nebraska,
other States were also seriously afflicted. In previous years, for
instance in 1882, as well as in 1897, the horses of southeastern Texas
were reported to have died by the thousand, and in the following year
the horses of Iowa were said to have "died like rats." However, Kansas
seems to have had