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REPORTS OF CASES* 
nally to arrest the fcetor with advantage, with possibly, in many 
cases, quinine in full doses. 
In closing I will say I do not consider this disease of very 
great importance, but rather the circumstances influencing it, 
viz., the extreme climatic period, which has been such a menace 
to agriculture, and so hazardous to the live stock interests in 
some sections of Illinois the past three years. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
PUNCTURED WOUND IN PELVIC CAVITY. 
By W. F. Derr, V.S., Wooster, Ohio. 
A boy of 14 years brought a bay mare, aged six years, to my 
infirmary, telling me that she would not eat, etc. I made an 
examination of her, and found the pulse 60, somewhat angry; 
temperature, 105^, respirations about normal; seemed to suffer 
some pain. I looked her over carefully, and asked all the ques¬ 
tions I thought necessary in order to make a diagnosis, but 
could get but very little information from the boy. He told me 
he had been riding her to a country store on the evening of the 
18th, and that she had eaten all of her feed until last evening, 
during the night and this morning. There was some stiffness 
in the lumbar region on moving her, but examination over that 
and the abdominal region failed to reveal enough to make a 
correct diagnosis. I told my barn-man to put her in a box- 
stall, and in about half an hour I again made an examination. 
She stood in about the same place where we had left her. On 
approaching her about the flanks she seemed to have some 
fear, and would cast her head around toward me. I certainly 
looked her over carefully and had to make up my mind 
that I could not diagnose the case correctly. I therefore con¬ 
cluded to treat symptoms, and wait for further developments. 
I feared peritonitis ; therefore, gave a dose of opium and calo¬ 
mel at the time. In four hours ordered her to have small 
doses of aconite and belladonna, with quinine, gr. xx. Being 
very busy at the time, and would be away most all of the day, 
this treatment was continued until the 21st. After again look¬ 
ing her over and finding the pulse about 60, still angry, tem¬ 
perature 104 respirations normal, unless I would manipulate 
her flanks, which would increase them, I had my man lead her 
