REPORTS OF CASES. 
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mediate relief being- necessary, the animal was cast and the 
parts cleansed, and a four per cent, solution of cocaine injected 
over the end of the catheter which had been inserted. After 
cutting down onto the catheter I discovered a stricture of the 
urethra, which only permitted the passage of a very small probe. 
I then dilated the stricture with my finger, which took consid¬ 
erable force, when urine escaped very freely. The bladder was 
then washed out with warm water, and the wound dusted with 
boracic acid and iodoform, once daily for two weeks, when the 
wound was healed and the animal appeared all right. The 
owner took him home and turned him in pasture. In three 
days he came back, worse than before I operated. It being late, 
and not wishing to operate by lamp-light, I punctured the 
bladder with a trocar and canula through the rectum, which 
relieved him until next morning, when I chloroformed him and 
repeated the operation. After dilating the urethra I inserted a 
silver tube, holding it in place with silk sutures through the 
edges of the wound, leaving it there for ten days, and washing 
the parts with a solution of carbolic acid, and kept parts below 
well covered with vaseline to prevent urine irritating legs and 
sheath. 
At the end of ten days the tube was removed and parts 
dressed daily with boracic acid and iodoform, the catheter be¬ 
ing passed once daily. At the end of the next week the stric¬ 
ture was again closing, so it was difficult to pass the catheter, 
and the outside wound being completely healed, I secured a 
steel wire (No. 9) and had a blunt point soldered on it, the size 
of the urethra, and passed that once a day for five days, then 
every other day for a week. The horse urinating then nor¬ 
mally, I sent him home. He has since been doing his work with¬ 
out any inconvenience. The horse being otherwise healthy I 
gave no internal treatment. 
STRINGHAL/T IN RIGHT HIND RIME. 
By W. H. Curtiss, D.V.S. Marengo, Ill. 
About May 1st I operated on a large black horse for string- 
halt, by removing about half an inch of the peroneous tendon, 
operating close to its union with the extensor pedis. The 
horse was turned into a pasture for two months. When taken 
from the pasture was sound, and has been worked every day 
since with no return of the trouble. This was a case of two 
years’ standing and verv severe. 
