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teritis, confinement in rather an obscure place, want of exer¬ 
cise and old age. I was called to him at the end of Decem¬ 
ber last, and was informed that he was suffering from diarrhoea 
for many days. In making my clinical examination, I 
noticed that both eyes were sore, but not being called to at¬ 
tend to these organs I did not examine them carefully. Proper 
treatment for chronic gastro-enteritis was prescribed; the 
patient gradually got better and at the end of March I was in¬ 
formed by the owner that he was as well as he could be, con¬ 
sidering his extreme old age. 
The nth of September last the owner called to get some 
more medicine for the dog! After a few minutes of conver¬ 
sation he took out of his portfolio a small package wrapped 
in paper, and showing a small, round, whitish object, said it 
fell out of the dog’s eye a few weeks previously. 
Surely it was the crystalline lens. It is quite easy to recount 
the case : My patient, weakened by disease and old age, etc., 
has had an ulceration of the cornea. Every circumstance 
being favorable to the progress of the disease, it finally caused 
perforation of the membrane and fall of the lens. 
I saw the dog the next day and examined his eyes as well 
as I could without the aid of any instrument and with the dif¬ 
fused light. Opposite the superior line of the iris of the per¬ 
forated eye, the cornea presents a projection the size of a pea, 
and which is formed of the membrane of Descemet forced out 
of the opening of the cornea by the new-formed tissues. The 
cornea is dull, greyish-white; though the eye is somewhat 
atrophied, it is more convex than usually. The other eye 
presents near its centre a cavity of about one-quarter each 
diameter, which has not yet perforated the cornea. Both 
eyes are suffering from purulent conjunctivitis. The patient 
is destroyed the next day with chloroform. 
Spratts’ Dog Biscuits. —We have received as a compli¬ 
ment from this well-known concern, a pamphlet, referring to 
the use of this mode of feeding for dogs, which well deserves 
reading. It is sent gratis to any applicant. 
