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URETHROTOMY IN A STEER. 
By M. Bouohet. 
A large ox, eight years old, was taken with violent colic in the 
middle of the night. Laying down and getting up, kicking 
violently, and gazing at his flanks, he was evidently enduring 
gieat suffering. He w^s somewhat tympanic ; had not ruminated 
since the morning previous, was covered with perspiration and 
had not micturated. Taken out of his stall, he was with diffi¬ 
culty kept standing at rest; his tail was frequently erected, and 
the urethra was seen violently bouncing and contracting, but 
without the escape of a single drop of urine. By rectal examina¬ 
tion the bladder was found enormously distended. Pressure on 
the urethral tract, in the scrotal region, gave rise to excessive pain, 
which caused him to drop down on his back. 
Although unprepared for a case of that nature, the author 
performed the operation of urethrotomy, as best he could, in 
order to relieve the excessive distention of the bladder, and to 
obviate immediate danger of the rupture of that organ. 
Two days later a more minute exploration revealed at the 
second curve of the S of the penis, a small immobile nodosity, 
pressure upon which caused great pain. Finding it impossible to 
eiect the penis sufficiently for the performance of scrotal urethrot 
omy, an incision was made over the seat of the hard body felt in 
the urethra, and two calculi extracted which had been well im¬ 
bedded in the surrounding tissues and entirely closed the canal. 
The urine then had a free channel of escape, through both the 
fiist and the second incisions, and the animal made a rapid re¬ 
covery .—Revue Veterinaire . 
RABIFORM SYMPTOMS IN A DOG, FOLLOWING THE PERFORA¬ 
TION OF THE DUODENUM BY TWO TAPE-WORMS. 
By M. Cadeao. 
A terrier dog was killed and his cadaver examined in search 
of the characteristic lesions of rabies, which from the symptoms 
he had presented, had been suspected during life. The history 
showed that for three days he had been dull and uneasy, his 
mouth full of saliva, his looks threatening, and that while at 
