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REPORTS OF CASES. 
He was discharged on the fifth day with the wound almost 
entirely well. The interest of this case is the large size of 
the bone compared with the small size of the dog. 
SUPPURATIVE ENCYSTED KIDNEYS. 
By P. Joslin, V.S. 
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I don’t know as this will be of interest enough for you 
to give it any notice ; if so you can make a note of it. On 
October 6th I was called to visit a black mare thirteen years 
old, about sixteen hands high, and found her very much re¬ 
duced in flesh ; limbs swollen a little and apparently lame in 
the off hock joint; pulse 60: temperature 104°; appetite 
capricious; examined ; over the kidneys found no tenderness 
on shrinking from pressure of the loins; diagnosed indiges¬ 
tion with fever; left remedies indicated, with orders to give 
bran mash. October 8th saw mare ; found appetite improved 
a little ; pulse 70, and weak; temperature 103° ; and swell¬ 
ing gone from the limbs except the off hock joint, which was 
very much swollen and very painful; would hold it up most 
of the time; prescribed lotion for leg. Nine o’clock in the 
evening mare laid down and struggled with pain until she 
died at 1.30 o’clock. 
October 9th made autopsy at four o’clock P.M.; found left 
kidney encysted in a thin sack and surrounded by a fleshy 
tumor as large as a man’s head. The substance of the kidney 
was all soft suppuration. On cutting through what should 
have been the kidney into the tumor, it discharged about 
one quart of white pus, the consistence of cream. The liver 
and spleen were congested ; bowels normal and all of the 
internal viscera except those named. 
One thing I will mention. About four years ago this 
mare had a calculi extracted from the bladder weighing near¬ 
ly one pound, and two years ago another about the size of a 
small hen’s egg, which I have in my possession at the pres¬ 
ent time. 
