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with tetanus heretofore, it either arises from traumatic or idio¬ 
pathic causes. I could always see a change for the better from 
the eighth to the tenth day ; if unfavorable death always took 
place from the third to the seventh day. I should like to hear 
through the Review from my professional brethren or the Edi¬ 
tors their opinions on this case. You will note that this horse 
nearly received one pound of belladonna during his entire sick¬ 
ness. 
GUNSHOT WOUND IN A DOG—REMARKABLE RECOVERY. 
By James McDonough, D.V.S., Montclair, N. J. 
The subject was a red setter, who on July ist, was shot, the 
ball passing through the sub-lumbar region, leaving a small por¬ 
tion of the omentum protruding through the opening, which 
the animal proceeded to remove with his teeth, by pulling it out 
and biting it off. W hen I reached there, there were seven or 
eight pieces from one to two and one-half inches long, strewn 
about on the piazza, and what seemed to me to be the rest of the 
peritoneum (?) hanging outside, torn and bleeding. Well, I 
thought I would do something to earn my fee, so I clipped the 
hair, and washed the parts, using a creolin solution ; then I clip¬ 
ped the ragged ends hangingfrom the peritoneum, made a large 
incision, and returned it to the abdominal cavity, thinking he 
would present a better appearance when dead. After dressing 
with iodoform, and bandaging the body, I prescribed aconite and 
belladonna, to be given in small and repeated doses. The next 
morning the dog seemed to have forgotten that he had been 
shot, and without any complications, other than a small abscess, 
made a grand recovery in fifteen days. 
Of course, I expected peritonitis to set in, and the only 
theory that I can advance for its not doing so, is that there was 
not enough of the peritoneum left to make a case. 
FOUR CASES OF OPEN JOINT. 
By W. H. Gilbert, V. S., Leesburg, Ohio. 
I was called to see a ten-year-old horse that had fallen down 
on some small stones that had been put on a road and cut two- 
thirds across the left knee, through the capsular ligament in one 
place, the synovial fluid coming out of the wound, the knee 
swelled, sweating on the shoulders. He was in so much pain that 
I could not tell anything about his pulse nor respiration. I gave 
him nitrous ether 3 ii, cleansed the wound, put a splint on the 
back part of the leg, provided a large pad of absorbent.cotton, 
