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which was 80, weak and thready. I asked her to rise, 
which she did promptly and easily. As soon as on her feet, 
however, she cast her nose to the right flank. I now made 
a more careful examination ; pulse, 90 ; temperature, 106° ; 
respirations, 32 ; anxious look, visible mucous membranes of a 
leaden hue. On closer inspection, I found an area of about 
nine or ten inches in the right flank, of a hard character, 
which on manipulation caused her great pain. Percussion 
elicited a dull sound over an area of about twelve inches, pit¬ 
ting on pressure over the same surface. She defecated about 
this time, which seemed painful to her. I informed the 
owner that she had peritonitis, due to an injury, and that the 
case was hopeless. He, however, desired treatment, when I 
prescribed anodynes and stimulants internally, warm fomen¬ 
tations externally. She died during the night and a post¬ 
mortem was held in the morning, which revealed a small 
abscess containing about two ounces of foetid pus in the 
abdominal muscles, and a transverse rupture of the colon of 
about five inches, which had become adherent to the abdom¬ 
inal walls. There was extensive inflammation of the large 
intestines, with great thickening of the peritoneum surround¬ 
ing the injury for a space of about twelve inches. There 
was packed foecal matter of a dark color, very foetid, with an 
accumulation of mucous over the parts where the fcecal mat¬ 
ter had passed through. 
The case was a remarkable one to me. Why some of the 
foecal matter had not made its way into the peritoneal cavity, 
but had packed itself against the abdominal walls, and held 
there until adhesions occurred, and also the animal doing 
more or less work for three weeks or more, seem strange 
to me. 
PARAPLEGIA. 
By Herbert S. Perley, V.S., St. Albans, Vt. 
On Sunday, Nov. 20th, I was called to see a lame horse 
which was in a pasture about a mile from town. I found the 
animal, a bay gelding, seven years old, about sixteen hands 
high and weighing about 1,100 pounds. He was poor in flesh 
and had evidently seen hard times, being scarred in many 
places about the legs, evidently from severe duty of some 
kind, and with partially healed shoulder-galls. 
He showed signs of extreme exhaustion, and his sides bore 
evidence of recent severe duty of a whip. When first seen, 
he stood in a natural position, with the head down, and had 
the appearance of sleeping. Upon being moved he walked 
