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to pull through, six or seven had already pulled through. The 
wound in general looked extremely unhealthy; animal irritable, 
restless and anxious-looking. Temperature 105°, respirations 
38°, pulse 80. A very unfavorable prognosis was now given 
and the owner advised to destroy the animal, to which he un¬ 
willingly consented. 
Post-mortem .—It was becoming dark as I began the post¬ 
mortem. The character of the abdominal opening has already 
been described, so I will not repeat it. It had a general gan¬ 
grenous appearance. The abdominal opening was torn through 
in places. On the floor of the abdomen, surrounding the open¬ 
ing, were fibrous bands uniting it with the rumen. The majority 
of these were now broken, which no doubt was done by the ani¬ 
mal struggling to stand and from the forced position it was com¬ 
pelled to assume. The peritoneum was also adhered to rumen 
and floor of abdomen. These adhesions were not numerous 
nor well marked, except towards the opening. The rumen had 
a hole in it corresponding to the abdominal opening, but much 
larger and had healed over to nearly same size of abdominal 
opening. The rumen surrounding the opening seemed to be 
congested and had gangrenous spots on it. It was now quite 
dark, so much so that it was impossible to see what any of the 
viscera looked like. I sewed up the wound that I had made and 
left to call next morning to make a thorough post-mortem, but 
had the cedema buried. 
GLANDERS—MALLEINE. 
By J. S. Lamkin, D.V.S., Yonkers, N. Y. 
The following, as my first trial in the use of this valuable 
ingredient, may prove interesting to my colleagues and induce 
them to employ it oftener : 
The horse had been working on a grocer's wagon for six 
weeks previous to my attention being called to it and mingling 
with his five other horses. He was considered to have a “ cat¬ 
arrhal trouble,” in fact, a certificate to that effect by a veterin- 
