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box-stall open and in some way during’ their efforts the horse 
got partly up and staggered out of the door into the yard, 
where he lay unable to move. 
My assistant covered him up and gave him a hypodermic 
of ether, and in half an hour or so the horse got up alone and 
walked into the stall. He was lying down when I returned, 
but got up and ate his feed, remaining up for an hour or so. 
At io p.m. he was down and stretched out flat, breathing 
heavily and evidently in pain. Temperature was normal, but 
pulse slightly quickened and weak. I gave stimulants and a 
dose of chloral-hydrate and left him about 11:30 apparantly 
easy. 
On going to the infirmary at 5 A M. Saturday, I found the 
horse sweating profusely and evidently dying. He had been 
easy until about ten minutes before I came, when he had begun 
to thrash around and had waked up my assistant, who sleeps 
at the infirmary. He was in constant pain for an hour, when 
he died. 
I had him removed at once and held a post-mortem. I 
was unable to make up my mind what could have caused 
death, and all the way to the bone-yard was trying to account 
for death from the symptoms presented. On making a care¬ 
ful examination of the lumbar region, I was unable to discover 
any lesion except a blood-clot, which proved my diagnosis, 
but did not account for so violent and sudden a death. 
On examining the thoracic cavity, I found congestion of 
both lungs sufficient to cause death, in fact the entire lungs 
were affected. How this could occur and there be none of 
the symptoms of such a condition puzzles me. Could it be 
possible that the injury causing a coldness of the posterior 
parts was sufficient to keep the temperature down, and was 
there a high temperature present and not yet shown by a 
thermometer in the rectum ? Did congestion of lungs exist 
all the time or only after the animal got out of the stall ? 
FATTY TUMORS. 
By E. D. Bachman, D.V.S., Chester, N. Y. 
I am not as free with my pen as I would like to be in re¬ 
porting this case for the readers of the Review, and on that 
account will ask their indulgence. 
The subject was a brown horse, some eight years old, in 
good health and sound working condition, except for the fact 
that he had for some time carried on his chest and fore 
quarters, and also on some parts of his neck and body, a 
number of tumors of various sizes, some of which having be- 
