642 A CASE OF CONTUSED WOUND IN THE HOUSE 
rinat. ; dress with ung. digestive; give the tonic medicine; and 
turn out to grass. 
19/^. — With a little assistance she produced a fine calf. No 
more sloughing — the granulations healthy — the discharge nearly 
stopped — going on well — the tonic medicine to be continued. 
The last time I saw her she was completely cured — no defi- 
ciency in any of the quarters of the bag — yielding between two 
and three gallons of milk daily, and on the increase. 
A CASE OF CONTUSED WOUND IN THE HORSE 
PENETRATING INTO THE ABDOMEN. 
By M. U. Leblanc, M.V., Paris. 
The animal that forms the subject of the follcrwing narrative 
was a seven-year-old horse, belonging to an omnibus called “The 
Favourite,” and which, on account of his strength and good con- 
stitution, was named Hercules. On the 4th of February, 1831, 
a groom was leading him down the street, when the shaft of a 
cabriolet that was rapidly coming the contrary wav struck him 
on the right flank, about two inches below the poipt of the haunch 
and the same distance from the transverse processes of the lumbar 
vertebrae. The shaft entered the parietes of the abdomen, and 
penetrated nearly a foot into the abdominal cavity, where it re- 
mained for a short time fixed in the wound. 
Immediately on its being withdrawn the blood flowed abun- 
dantly, nor did it cease until a very strong compress of tow was 
applied, and kept on by a bandage round the body. I was sent 
for, and found him in the following state : — 
His head was hanging down and supported on the edge of the 
manger ; the ears, likewise, were pendent ; the eyes were almost 
closed, and the fore legs stretched apart from each other. The 
skin was covered with an abundant and almost cold sweat. The 
respiration was irregular, and very much disturbed — the nostrils 
extremely dilated — the air expired rather hot — the pulse very 
quick, and so weak as often to be scarcely perceptible. 
At each expiration there flowed from the wound in the flank 
either blood or a fluid highly tinged with blood, especially when 
the expiration was extended or prolonged. Whenever the abdo- 
minal cavity was compressed this flowed from the wound. I 
watched this flow of blood for nearly an hour, and the source 
