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REPORTS OF CASES. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
“Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner, but his skill dies with him. 
By recording his observations he adds to the knowledge of his profession, and assists 
by Ms facts hi building up the solid edifice of pathological science .”— Veterinary 
Record. 
One of our correspondents writes: 
“ I send you another small contribution, which you can make use of in the 
American Veterinary Review. I think reports of cases are really of more prac¬ 
tical value to the ordinary practitioners than more scientific articles, and I also 
think that if more records were kept of cases successfully treated, and published 
to the profession through the medium of our professional journals, not only the 
profession, but the stock-owning public would be benefitted to a much larger ex¬ 
tent than they now are. ...” 
[If more of the two thousand veterinarians that are now 
practicing in the United States would act upon the foregoing 
suggestion, what an amount of valuable and interesting infor¬ 
mation could be obtained.— Ed.] 
RUPTURED STOMACH. 
M. E. Johnson, V.S., Red Oak, Iowa 
Was called to sorrel horse weighing about ten hundred 
pounds ; was nine years old, a good livery horse; had been 
driven moderately all day ; came in at 8 P. M. and was taken 
with severe pains, and wanted to lie down while being un¬ 
hitched ; a flatulent condition of stomach and bowels was 
present; gas and feces passed per rectum, frequently with 
violent straining; regurgitation of gas from stomach was 
almost constant; animal would fall on the ground with great 
force. The distension of the bowels from gas seemed to exist 
to its utmost capacity. 
Later on vomiting commenced, ingesta emitted through 
the nostrils, hemorrhage followed. At this stage I unhesitat¬ 
ingly diagnosed a ruptured stomach. 
A general relaxation took place. Incontinence of urine. 
Animal went down and death immediately followed. The 
greatest suffering existed throughout his sickness. 
