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His strength rapidly failed, and shortly after 1 arrived he 
began to get stiff and was ordered to be taken out of the barn. 
After some difficulty, owing to his being so stiff, he was 
taken out, but only got about fifty feet from the door when he 
sank down in the snow and expired with scarcely a struggle. 
Necroscopy was immediately held which revealed the 
same pathological lesion as was observed in case No. i. 
The rupture was only about ten inches long in the last 
case, but was about one inch longer at each end in the outer 
coat than it was in the inner coats, and at each end it was a 
fresh tear, while in the middle it presented the same lesion as 
did case No. i, i. e. the thickened and inflamed margins show¬ 
ing that there was an old rupture of some days standing. 
The organ (stomach) showed no signs of .inflation except 
just along the margins of the rupture in the outer coat. 
This was the first attack of sickness that the horse had ever 
had, so far as the owner knew. 
As to the aetiology of this old rupture in the external coat 
l am at a loss, and hope that some pathologist will explain the 
subject through the columns of the Review. 
I have had several cases of rupture of the stomach in the 
horse, but these two are the only ones that presented this pe¬ 
culiar pathological lesion. 
In the first case, that the rupture had existed in the exter¬ 
nal coat for ten days or two weeks was evidenced by the 
animal’s condition ; while in the second there was no indication 
of its existence, the animal was apparently healthy to within 
a few hours of its death, yet the outer coat had evidently been 
ruptured, about five inches in length, for a number of days. 
LITHOTOMY. 
By A. D. Galbraith, D.V.S., Greensburg, Ind. 
I submit the following from notes taken at the time. A 
black gelding seven years old was brought to my hospital 
April 19, 1886, with the history that he had trouble in mictu¬ 
rating, and occasionally passed bloody urine, and that his 
trouble had been increasing for several months. 
