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REPORTS OF CASES. 
and at last the animal was exhausted, lay there wet with pers¬ 
piration and breathing rapidly. 
The history concerning this animal is very brief and as fol¬ 
lows : 
He was driven a short distance, one block from the stable, 
and while standing in front of the owner’s mansion, a city 
sprinkling wagon came along, the horse became frightened, 
pranced and jumped and finally fell, being afterwards unable to 
get up. 
The ambulance was called and he was removed to the hos¬ 
pital at 2 P.M. The animal was put in a box stall. He showed 
great colicky pains, looked towards his side, made some at¬ 
tempts to get up, was put in slings and raised, but was entirely 
unable to stand up. There was sensation and motion of the 
hind legs. The animal kept on struggling until 4 o’clock, 
which after all attempts to quiet him had failed, he died. 
At the post mortem the abdomen was found to contain a 
large quantity of blood, about a pail and a half full, the cellular 
tissue of the pelvic cavity as well as the bladder were infiltrated 
with blood. The ischio-pubic symphysis on its whole extent, 
the floor of the right pubis, the ilium at the neck on the right 
side as well as the internal angle of that bone were shattered 
in a large number of pieces of various dimensions. The blood¬ 
vessel through which the haemorrhage had evidently taken place 
and probably caused the death could not be made out. 
Taking in consideration that the horse was much advanced 
in years, is it not singular to have with such extensive lesions 
as the result of a slip and a fall. 
PUNCTURED WOUND OF PERINEUM, 
By G. A. Johnson, D.V.M., Sioux City. 
Read before the Western Iowa Veterinary Medical Association. 
On the evening of March 14th, was called to see a mare re¬ 
ported as being enagged ; arriving at the place about 9 P.M., I 
found a standard bred mare weighing about 1000 pounds, and 
about eight months in foal, suffering from a punctured wound of 
