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urine, administered stimulants combined with tinct aconite 
but with no result. As I had a visit to make about a mile 
further on I promised to call on my way back. On my ar¬ 
rival I found she had just died. On making a post-mortem 
all parts of the body in a healthy condition except the bladder, 
which had a longitudinal rupture of the inferior surface of 
the fundus about two or three inches in length, involving all 
the coats; there was a quantity of urine floating in the abdo¬ 
minal cavity. Uterus quite healthy and contained some of 
the injection I had used.— Ibid. 
HYDRASTIS IN THE TREATMENT OF NASAL GLEET. 
By Ca.pt. F. Smith, Professor in the Army Veterinary School, Aldershot. 
The value of hydratis canadensis in the treatment of nasal 
gleet was not overated by Messrs. Edgar and Hurndall. It 
may be within the recollection of your readers that the mem¬ 
bers of the Southern Counties V.M.A. were recommended 
by the former gentlemen to tny the drug, and I at once, 
through the kindness of Prof. Edgar, employed it in the 
treatment of a case of ozcena. 
The horse had been previously trephined, the maxillary 
sinus being opened in two places, one on the zygoma close 
to the eye, the other in the usual position ; the head was 
syringed out with a mixture of hydratis i to 6 of water twice 
a day, and ten drops of the tincture given with the drinking 
water. At first the discharge was so much increased that lil 
should have stopped the use of the remedy but for the timely 
warning of Mr. Hurndall, who told me that this effect would 
be produced ; for the first month there was not much im¬ 
provement, but after this the case daily grew better, the dis¬ 
charge ceased, and I allowed the wounds in the head to close ;j; 
the horse was discharged to duty in six weeks.— Ibid. 
A QUINTUPLE CONCEPTION. 
By Tiio3. Horton, M.R.C.V.S. 
A rather extraordinary case occurred in my practice about 
ten days ago. I was called to see a cow which was down; 
