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one must necessarily almost immediately prove fatal, unless relief 
were promptly obtained, while the other could not at the best 
promise more than perhaps five or six months of labor and suf¬ 
fering. 
The mare, an animal 15 years old, had for some time been 
making violent efforts to micturate, the meatus being exposed 
during the attempt, red and tumefied, and only some high colored 
and strongly odorous urine escaping. After a day’s work she 
passed blood. Rectal examination revealed the .presence of a 
stone, which was easily felt with the finger introduced in the 
meatus, but at the same time the bladder was felt full of poly¬ 
pous vegetation. The calculus was removed after being crushed, 
aud it was found necessary to enlarge the urethra by two incisions 
while accomplishing it. Its weight was 92 grammes, or about 3 
ounces. The animal recovered rapidlyand resumed her work. 
She kept at it for a period of six or seven months, when she died. 
At the post-mortem the bladder was [found full of polyps of 
various sizes and forms, of a greyish color and lardaceous in as¬ 
pect. Both kidneys also proved to be diseased with encephaloid 
carcinomatous degeneration.— Ibid. 
OSTEOMALACIA IN A MARE. 
By Me. L. Soula. 
Under this denomination the author gives a description of a 
well-observed case of the form of disease well known to Ameri¬ 
can veterinarians under the name of osteo-porosis. Though it 
may be a disease of rare occurrence in France, we find it on the 
contrary, very common on this continent. The history of the 
case referred to presents no features of particular interest to 
American veterinarians, so far as concerns the slow development 
of the lesions. The symptoms and mode of manifestations were 
those usually observed, of general alterations of the organism, 
variations of appetite, difficulty of digestion, a rheumatoid form 
of lameness, enlargement of the bones of the head, disease of the 
teeth, &c., and, finally, death in a condition of excessive maras- 
The post-mortem appearances were such as are generally 
mus. 
