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of brownish mucus from both nostrils, and the breath was very 
offensive, proceeding from a collection of food in the mouth or 
pharynx. 
9 th . — Much better. 
11 th . — Feeds well ; much better. 
12 th . — Pulse regular ; respiration rather difficult, with a return 
of the wheezing as before, but in a much slighter degree ; feeds 
well, but still manifests soreness of the throat and difficulty in 
swallowing water. The tube was removed this morning, the horse 
breathing freely through the opening in the trachea. There was 
a discharge of mucus from the near nostril. 
13/A. — Better. 
14fA. — Discharge from near nostril the same. In drinking, a 
small quantity of the water returns through the nostrils. 
1 5th. — Better. 
1 6th and Ylth . — Feeds well ; considerably better. 
18^4. — The opening in the trachea having granulated and filled 
up considerably, there is but a very trifling degree of air passing 
through it. 
19 th . — The opening in the trachea quite closed ; the respiration 
carried on in the regular way with but very trifling noise ; feeds 
well, and in good spirits. 
2 5th . — Much better; feeds well. Improves daily in condition, 
and the breathing but little disturbed. 
Dec . 2 6th . — Discharged perfectly well. 
FRACTURE OF THE ACETABULUM. 
By W. Percivall. 
Sejjtember 25th. 1843. — I was called to a five-year-old blood 
mare, who, in the act of being mounted, took fright at some beer- 
cans, made a sudden start, and slipped down on her off side upon 
some rough granite pavement. I found her, expressing much pain, 
standing (in a box about a hundred yards from the place of accident, 
into which she had been led) with the off hind limb extended, and 
rather abducted, and resting upon the toe of the hoof, which was 
turned outwards. Upon the prominence of the round bone of the 
same side was a patch of dirt. When moved, which she was 
made most unwillingly to do, she walked with her hind quarters 
curved to the near side, leaving the affected limb stretched outward 
until compelled to move it, and then she did so by lifting the toe, 
and momentarily replacing it upon the ground, and finishing by 
