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after the injury and took the animal home, against my advice, 
for I thought the colt was too weak to make such a long trip. 
However, he did stand it very well, and the owner told me 
that the wound healed entirely without any appreciable slough, 
and the sutures kept in place to the last. 
The reason the sutures held so well in this case is that the 
wound was so painful that he could not rub against anything 
without causing much discomfort. I have not seen the ani¬ 
mal since he was taken home, but the owner told me that there 
was not the slightest scar left, and that one side of his face 
was as warm as the other, and the colt seemed as well as he 
ever was. 
INTERESTING POST MORTEMS, 
By C. E. Clayton, D.V.S., 
Assistant Surgeon American Veterinary Hospital, New York. 
PERICARDITIS IN A CAT. 
On November 30th a cat was admitted to the hospital 
with the following history: For the previous ten days had 
appeared dull and for the last three days had eaten nothing. 
Respiration was seen to be difficult and very much increased, 
salivation free and the appearance of ascites. A diagnosis of 
heart disease was made, the nature of which it was unable 
to discern, on account of the difficulty of keeping her quiet. 
She died the next day, and on post mortem about ten ounces 
of fluid were found in the abdominal cavity, about five 
ounces in the thoracic cavity, and about three or four in the 
pericardial sack, and here was where the lesions existed ; the 
pericardium was enormously thickened, the heart hypertro¬ 
phied, and on the leftside the heart had become adherent to 
the pericardium for the greater part of its surface. When they 
were broken apart the surfaces looked exactly like the rough 
granulations of a wound. 
HEART DISEASE IN A DOG. 
On December 25th a cocker spaniel was brought to the 
hospital suffering with incessant cough, which she had had 
for two years, treatment having proved useless. The owner 
