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not be positively ascertained, but the presence of the wound, 
the discharge of synovia, the enormous swelling which fol¬ 
lowed, the immobility of the part, the great soreness of the 
region, the impossibility of motion or weight carrying, etc., 
ail justified the diagnosis as well as the prognosis, which was 
rather unfavorable, except for the age of the patient. The 
treatment was long and complicated. Slings, warm fomen¬ 
tations, antiseptic injections of the wound, antiseptic dress¬ 
ings, then cold, continued irrigation, repeated blisters, were 
successively employed, with the satisfactory result of a good 
recovery. 
Inversion of the Bladder in Mares. —This condition 
is not as common probably in mares as it is in cows, but at 
the same time is met with by practitioners. Mr. H. Thomp¬ 
son relates three cases of some interest in the Veterinary Record. 
In the first he was successful in returning the displaced or¬ 
gan into its position, but did not succeed in making it remain 
until after three attempts, which were followed by the return 
of the difficulty. At last, before removing his hand from the 
passage, he cauterized the margin of the meatus with nitrate 
of silver, quickly withdrew his hand and ordered the man 
who held the mare to trot her sharply, while he dashed a few 
pailfuls of cold water under her tail. In the second case the 
mode of treatment was the same, but the mare died from 
twisted bowel. In the third, a mare while foaling had also 
inversion of the bladder, which was ruptured for about six 
inches, the urine flowing in a continuous stream. The mare 
was destroyed. 
Purpura Hemorrhagica. —“ Veteran,” in the Octo¬ 
ber Veterinary Journal , reports a case of this disease in a 
heavy draught horse, which shows the results observed by 
him with the iodine treatment. This animal presented well 
developed symptoms of the disease, and was placed first 
under chlorate of potash, which has generally been highly 
successful with “Veteran.” But little improvement followed, 
and after several days, the iodine treatment by intra-tracheal 
injections was started, which consisted in injecting once a 
day for six days about four grains of iodine, the solution be¬ 
ing made of i part of iodine, 2 of iodide of potash, 100 of dis¬ 
tilled water. The author says that the “ beneficial results 
were little short of marvellous,” and recovery was from that 
moment assured. Considering the disease somewhat of germ 
nature, the author insists upon attention to hygienic surround¬ 
ings, and on that account also recommends the use of iodine, 
