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REPORTS OF CASES. 
acetatis and fl. ext. buchu each J ij with spts. aeth. nit. 5 iv 
to be given in 3 iv doses every four hours. We were nearly 
a half mile from any buildings, as I said before, so it was im¬ 
possible to get hot water for fermentations. Fortunately, I 
had some mustard with me, and plenty of water to mix it for 
we were along the canal. I applied it to his loins. 
Ordering some straw and blankets after catheterizing my 
patient, 1 left to return in the afternoon, when I found no 
particular changes. Administered Oj ol. lini. The diuretic 
treatment was kept up to the end, but after the second day 
§ i more of nitre was added to the mixture, giving the same 
sized doses every four hours, with a pint of linseed oil every 
second day. There he laid for six days, being catheterized 
twice daily; turned from side to side three times, daily; re¬ 
ceived his medicine every four hours, night and day. All 
this time he would eat and drink, but gruel or bran mashes 
were all that were given him. He regained his feet (for the 
first time from the time he dropped) on the evening of the 
sixth day, seeming much better. Since this date he has been 
improving (but it took a long while to heal the bed-sores, as 
you can imagine), until now he is being driven to a milk- 
wagon, and is all right with the exception of a spot on each 
hip where the hair has not grown in. 
I thought this a very hopeless case after the third 
day ; in a meadow, too, very damp, in the month of May; but 
I still kept on the treatment before mentioned, and am very 
glad he recovered, for I was a new business man in the place 
and it did me lots of good. 
CASTRATION OF A LION. 
By J. G. Slee, Student American Veterinary College. 
The subject, a Nubian lion, five years old, in Bentley’s 
circus—operator, Dr. A. Shirk. The castration of our 
domestic animals is always an interesting operation to the 
student. The results can in a measure be definitely foretold, 
and any complications resulting readily treated. But when 
it comes to the “king of beasts” the operator must antici-' 
