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“gathering,” and to wait a few days until it “softened,” and then to “stick a 
knife in it.” After a few days the owner “ stuck a knife in it,” and as nearly 
as Dr. Lee could find out a little blood-stained serum ran out. Later in the day 
the horse was taken with colicky pains, and Dr. Lee was sent for. He found a 
loop of intestine protruding from the opening made by the knife, and already 
becoming gangrenous. After getting Dr. Peters to see the case in consultation, 
it was decided that the only thing to do was to destroy the animal. Upon 
post-mortem a rent six inches long was found in the muscular coat of the abdo¬ 
men, in the upper part of the flank, the peritoneum and intestines being retained 
by the skin and subcutaneous connective tissue. The animal had been regu¬ 
larly worked for a week or ten days.after receiving the injury up to the day the 
owner had opened the swelling. The loop of protruding intestine was the size 
of a man’s fist, strangulated at the opening in the skin, and had commenced to 
mortify. 
Dr. Lee also reported a case of a horse that had had trouble with his teeth 
for four years. About three years ago the first upper molar tooth had been 
pulled out, and the animal’s mouth afterwards neglected, the unopposed lower 
molar grew until it had worn a hole in the palate, exposing the lower ends of 
the turbinated fours and causing them to ulcerate. There was a disagreable 
smelling discharge from the nostril and the horse made a roaring sound when 
put to any exertion. Dr. Lee removed the overgrown first lower molar, and 
knocked out two pieces of the root of the upper molar which remained, leaving 
a hole as large as a half dollar in the floor of the nostril. This hole had to be 
plugged with oakum when the horse drank, as if left open it prevented his 
making a vacuum with his mouth, and hence he could not drink. The hole is 
now closing rapidly with healthy granulations on the ends of the ulcerated tur¬ 
binated bones, the discharge is ceasing, and has lost its disagreeable odor, and the 
horse now feeds easily and is rapidly gaining in flesh and strength. 
Dr. Winchester reported a case of fracture of the pubic symphysis in a mare 
which was trying to foal. She was standing upon a wet floor when her hind 
feet flew out sidewise, and the ischiopubic symphysis split its entire 
length. 
Dr. Winslow said he had a case of ulceration of the palate similar to the one 
reported by Dr. Lee. 
Dr. Blackwood reported a case of rupture of the uterus of a mare used on 
the horse cars. She was in foal, and last winter fell down and the car on to her. 
She did not seem much hurt at the time, and was soon able to resume work 
again. One night this spring he was sent for in a hurry to see the mare, as she 
was trying to foal, and evidently required assistance. When he arrived, the 
mare was dead, and a quantity of large intestines protruded from the vagina. 
Upon post-mortem examination he found a rent at the neck of the uterus through 
which the intestines escaped, and a fully-developed foal in the uterus. The 
edges of the rent were fully cicatrized, showing the tear to be an old one, and in 
all probability the result of the fall last winter. 
Dr. Howard said that Mr. Ward must often have interesting experiences, 
and called upon him for a few remarks. 
Mr. Ward related a case that might have been mistaken for rabies by mem- 
