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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
RECTO-VESICULAR FISTULA IN A HORSE—RECOVERY. 
By J. A. Nunn, D.S.O., F R.C.V.S. 
The patient, an aged cob, was an inmate of the Lahore 
Veterinary College, the owner stating that the animal passed 
his urine through the rectum. He was in a miserable condi¬ 
tion and much distressed. The temperature was 102° ; pulse, 
54; respiration quickened, thigh and perinceum excoriated 
by ’the dribbling of urine and fasces from the anus. The 
penis was much inflamed and swollen, with a sloughing ulcer 
on the glans, and about a pint of pus collected in the sheath. 
The mouth of the urethra was much constricted, and this 
stricture being divided with a bistoury and a catheter passed, 
a second stricture was found back of the first, and passed 
through, with careful pressure. The catheter was thus passed 
into the bladder and two or three ounces of urine drawn off. 
The repeated introduction of the catheter every few days was 
after awhile rewarded by the return of the normal flow of 
urine through the urethra. The animal during that time re¬ 
ceived simple antifebrile treatment and local anodyne supposi¬ 
tories. The sore on the penis was healing. In this case, says 
the author, the fistula was due in the first instance to the 
stricture of the urethra, causing retention of urine, which 
accumulated and ruptured the bladder at its upper surface, 
that viscus opening into the rectum, the stricture in all proba¬ 
bility being the result of irritation caused by the sore on the 
penis.— Ibid . 
DISLOCATION OF THE SHOULDER OF A MARE SUCCESSFULLY 
TREATED. 
By Robert Gibbs, M.R.C.V.S. 
This accident is not a common one, and the favorable re¬ 
sult obtained in this case may be of service as an addition to 
the history of similar injuries. 
A well bred mare running almost a dead heat with another, 
suddenly fell. On rising she was found to be exceedingly lame, 
the front of the shoulder joint being swollen, and the leg three 
or four inches shorter than its fellow. It was evident that she 
