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T. F. BARROW. 
Dr. Thanhoffer draws a sharp distinction between the mild 
venereal disorder (chancroid), and equine syphilis (maladie du 
coit, or “ zuchtlahme ”), averring that the local symptoms as 
shown by the external genitals are of little diagnostic value and 
would only pronounce the case one of equine syphilis when, in 
addition, the animal shows abnormal sensitiveness of the loins, 
lameness and thalerflecke. He has seen but few eruptions on the 
external genitals, and those were ephemeral and of little or no 
diagnostic value. 
Other changes of the external genitals, described in my 
report, are not mentioned by Dr. Thanhoffer. 
The Doctor found several forms of germ-life in various dis¬ 
eased tissues, but offers no definite conclusion' as to the part 
played by any one of them. 
CASE REPORT OF INTESTINAL CALCULI. 
A Paper read before the Maryland State Yeterinary Medical Association by 
T. F. Barrow, Y.S. 
The subject, a gray mare eleven years old, sixteen and a half 
hands high, weighing about fourteen hundred pounds, the property 
of P. T. George & Co., was brought to my infirmary at eight 
o’clock Tuesday morning, December lltli, suffering with the 
following symptoms: enteric pains of a recurrent character; tem¬ 
perature, 1011 ° F.; pulse, 48; respirations slightly accelerated; 
considerable abdominal distention. Upon making inquiries rela¬ 
tive to the prior condition of the mare, ascertained that she had 
suffered for some considerable time with irregular bowels, and 
her appetite was very capricious. Made a rectal examination, 
removing some dry hard foecal matter; the animal had occasional 
pains and no movement of her bowels, for three days previous; 
no appearances of hepatic complication. Diagnosis : Intestinal 
obstruction. Gave the following drench : ol. lini. 3i, pulv. barb, 
aloes. 5 ss, soda bicarb. 5 ss j administered an enema and placed 
the animal in a loose box. Six hours later, finding the mare very 
uneasy, gave her a hypodermic injection consisting of four grains 
