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REPORTS OF CASES. 
rated the chest the night previous. An examination showed a 
cut between the second and last ribs to such an extent that a 
portion of the left lung protruded. The animal presented a 
pitiful appearance. I at once put the animal under ether, and 
placino- it on the table disinfected, washed, and, handling the 
lun°' with a clean steamed towel, succeeded in putting ten sutures 
in the pleura and costal muscles, afterwards closing the skin with 
twelve more. An iodoform dressing, with collodion and a ban- 
da°'e were then placed over the whole side of the chest and 
abdomen. The animal made an elegant recovery, without a 
drop of pus or discharge, in ten days, but refused food for five 
days. Temperature 105°, lasting four days after the operation. 
Slight pleuritic symptoms developed, and were treated m the 
ordinary way, and iodide of potassium administered after the 
febrile symptoms had subsided. _ 
Since that the owner tells me that his u Isabella, as he calls 
her, has lost all pleasure and desire for jumping fences, accom¬ 
panying her master on his usual morning ride in the saddle ;. a 
sport which he was unable to prevent. her from indulging m 
except through the above described accident. 
A NEEDLE in THE TONGUE OF A HORSE. 
By W. J. Martin, V.S., Kankakee, Ills. 
Some months ago, being called to an adjoining village to 
treat a severe case of distemper, and after prescribing for the 
same, I was requested by a neighbor of my client’s to go and see 
a mare of his that for several days had not eaten very well, and 
for the last day had entirely refused all food. The man said that 
he was afraid that she also had taken the distemper. . Upon my 
arrival at his farm, which was at about dusk, the patient, a fine 
bay mare, aged about seven years, was led out into the yard for 
my inspection. The animal was a picture of. perfect health, 
and I was totally unable to detect any signs of influenza or any 
other symptoms of disease. The thyroid and lymphatic glands 
showed no signs of tumefaction, and the stethescope revealed 
not the slightest abnormal sound in the trachea nor bronchi. 
The thermometer showed her temperature to be normal; no 
cough was present; no saliva dribbled from the mouth ; e\ es 
bright; ears erect and alert to every sound, yet she absolutely 
refused to touch some fresh oats which I offered to her. There 
was a case, I thought, that would puzzle even the famed Oracle 
of Delphi to unravel. After thinking the matter over for a few 
minutes I thought perhaps that some foreign body had become 
