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arched, pulse 80, large and feeble; temperature, ioi 3-5; a dull 
hard swelling over loins and extending over last eight ribs, 
principally at right side, continual scraping of bedding, which 
was no sooner strewn out than was gathered up again in lumps; 
never attempting to lie down; there was no passage of foeces 
or flatus, nor yet of urine until about three hours before death. 
My diagnosis was some internal injury, and the prognosis 
unfavorable. 
About 3 o’clock his temperature rose to 104, and continued 
to rise until death, which occurred a few hours later, it being 
then 108. About this time frequent and small quantities of 
urine tinged with blood were evacuated with a considerable 
amount of pain. About 5 o’clock he went down never to rise 
again, being in extreme agony for about an hour and a half 
before death closed the scene. 
Post-mortem .—All the organs in the body appeared perfectly 
healthy, except the right kidney, which was extremely friable, 
and could be easily crumbled between the finger and thumb. 
This organ was found about six inches out of its place, having 
slipped downwards and forwards; its capsule and surrounding 
tissues had undergone violent inflammation; extreme peritonitis 
was also present; fatty infiltration and deposition occurred in 
all tissues of the body. 
Never having heard of such an accident before must be my 
plea for recording this one. The extreme fatty condition of the 
animal being to my mind the predisposing, and the sudden 
jerk occurring in the dyke, the exciting cause.— Vet. Record. 
TWO FISH HOOKS AND LINE EXTRACTED FROM CESOPHAGUS OF COW. 
By Archibald Renfrew, M.R.C.V.S., Broadway. 
On October 26th I received the following telegram: “Come 
to Park’s Farm, Evesham, at once. Cow with fish hook in 
throat.” 
On reaching the place I found the cow lying on her sternum, 
head and neck stretched out, anxious expression, and drooping 
ears. The oesophagus, with its surrounding tissues, was very 
