REMARKABLE CASES IN PRACTICE. 
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should be heated to a body heat. I sometimes apply a mild 
blister over the joint after this but not always. 
If the constipation requires attention, a little castor oil or 
tinctuie of aloes usually suffice, or an injection of warm water. 
In case of persistence of the urachus, I single it out, catch it 
up with an artery forceps, draw it down and ligate it with cro- 
mated cat-gut or silk. 
REMARKABLE CASES IN PRACTICE. 
By S. S. Baker, D.V.S., Chicago, Ill. 
(A paper read before the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association.) 
Mr. President and Gentlemen :—The first case I wish 
-o call your attention to, is one that occurred in a seven-year- 
old driving mare belonging to the Stone Carriage Company. 
I was called to see the mare on November 21, 1893, at 9 
A.M. and found her suffering with acute indigestion. I gave her 
a colic draught and repeated it three times, after which the ani¬ 
mal appeared to be all right. Before leaving, however, I gave 
her an ounce ball of aloes. At n o’clock that night the 
owner called me again ; when I reached the stable, I found the 
mare as bad as ever. Gave anodyne drench and advised her 
removal to the hospital, and she was at once started with the 
groom, the owner telling me she had been perfectly quiet since 
I left her in the morning, till just before he called me the second 
time, but had reiused her feed and would drink nothing'; she 
was quite uneasy the rest of the night. After her arrival at the 
hospital, and in fact was so for three days ; the pains were not 
continous by any means, but would occur an hour or two apart, 
Gave opiates, hot water enemas and hot applications to bowel? 
and stomach. 
The second day the temperature began to go up slowly, and 
on the fifth day it reached 102° F., which was as high as it went. 
But the animal would not eat nor drink. Pulse went to 75°and 
remained there ; it was veay small and weak; ears and ex¬ 
tremities cold, and could only be kept warm by rubbing and 
band affirm. 
