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of acute indigestion, and was punctured six times at the first, 
and seven times at the second, and recovered from both. I 
then neurotomized her for navicular disease, and at present 
she has the appearance of a sound and healthy animal. 
Patient No. 2.—Subject was a bay mare owned by J. L. 
Lewis, of Harpster, O. 
The attendant came to my office and said the mare had the 
colic and asked for a colic mixture. 
The mare had been pregnant for ten months, so I told the 
man if one dose did not relieve her he should let me see her. 
The medicine was given, pain relieved, and mare put to work. 
About one month later he came to my office and said the 
mare was same as before, and as time was due to foal, re¬ 
quested me to call and see her. On my arrival I found that 
the amniotic fluid had escaped, but there were no visible 
labor pains, so I proceeded to remove the foetus, which was 
alive and did well. 
t then inserted my hand to remove the placenta, and to 
my surprise came in contact with a dead foetus much smaller 
than the other. It was so putrid that the eyes had disap¬ 
peared, the skin and hair would slip off at the slightest touch, 
and had a most offensive odor. I removed it, cleansed the 
womb with a weak solution of carbolic acid, gave a laxative, 
followed with quinine and morphine. 
On my return the next day I found a well marked case of 
utero-peritonitis, with the following symptoms: small, hard 
pulse, elevated temperature, loss of appetite, hurried respira¬ 
tion, mouth hot, mucous membrane injected, stamping with 
hind feet, turning head toward flank, swollen vulva, and a 
discharge therefrom. The lining membrane of vulva was 
black and ulcerated, and possessed a most offensive odor, so 
bad was the smell that I could hardly encourage the attendant 
to administer the medicine. Grave ^quinine, morphine and 
aconite every four hours, alternated with hypo-sulphate soda. 
The faeces would collect in the rectum, and the mare was 
unable to expel them with the aid of injections. 
I had a small boy to stand on a box and with his arm well 
oiled would remove the faeces from a much swollen rectum. 
