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she had been fasted and well prepared for casting. After she 
was relieved from the ropes she got right up and began to eat 
her bedding. 
Now, I will confess I wished to get some information, so I 
wrote to a good friend of mine, a man who has had a large anci 
long experience and told him of my failures. He attributed 
it to the solution of cocaine being old. I wrote him that the 
solutions were always made fresh, and in the proportion as de¬ 
scribed—the number of grains to the number of drops of water 
was measured by the hypodermic syringe. It cannot be said 
that the cocaine was not good; as soon as I had finished the 
last failure I went to the fire department and fired a horse with 
gr. iv to 50 minims for ringbone, and he was very nervous on 
account of being blistered twice before, but he stood still and 
never moved the foot until I had finished. My friend told me 
he had never met with a failure with 15 minims of a 10% 
solution. 
There is a question whether more cocaine would have been . 
better or whether more would have proved serious. 
It seems novel that all three were pacers. 
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By Richard Middleton, D.V.S. 
PELVIC FRACTURE AS A CAUSE FOR LAMENESS. 
Maier examined a cow which the day before had fallen in 
such a manner as to cause both posterior limbs to spread from 
under her and diverge. The animal could not regain its feet, 
and the hinder extremities seemed unable to make any effort in 
this direction. Visibly the limbs were normal, but upon rectal 
examination the patient immediately exhibited symptoms of 
pain. One could distinguish splinters of bone right and left 
from the symphysis pubis upon the pelvic floor; a detached 
piece had even penetrated the inferior wall of the vagina. The 
animal was slaughtered. 
