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EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN PAPERS. 
March 15th, about sixteen hours after the accident had oc- 
cured, appetite good, pulse normal, temperature 102° F. Res¬ 
piration normal; very little swelling except in leg. Treatment 
continued same as above, except stopped using R. No. 1. 
March 17th, about sixty hours after accident, appetite gone; 
breathing rapid and labored; flank tucked; pulse rapid, thready 
and weak; temperature 105° F.; some tenderness of the abdo¬ 
men; syringed out wound with creoline solution; continued 
same line of treatment and again used R. No. 1, two drachms 
every four hours. Evening of same day, breathing easier, 
pulse slower and stronger; temperature I03 J F. Appetite 
improving. 
From this time on the case made a very rapid recovery, and 
the mare dropped a healthy foal on June 26th. This case dem¬ 
onstrates the possibility of successfully treating cases when the 
abdominal cavity has been penetrated. 
EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN PAPERS. 
By Richard Middleton, D.V.S., Philadelphia, Pa. 
FOREIGN BODIES IN THE RETICULUM. 
For a period of five years Schobert has successfully used the 
following method for the removal of extraneous substances from 
the digestive tract. It is only indicated when heart injury or 
pyrexia is not present; the latter is here to be interpreted as 
symptomatic of suppurative infection. 
After casting the patient, the four feet are bound together, a 
•stout post or beam thrust between the limbs, and the animal 
turned upon the back—which position is to be maintained 
throughout the manipulation, and places himself on a chair upon 
the left side of the patient, and works from this point with one 
foot, upon the left epigastric region posterior to the ensiform 
cartilage of the sternum. 
Six to ten kicks or pushes with the foot is usually sufficient 
to dislodge the foreign body from the walls of the reticulum. 
This procedure was suggested by the fact that cattle m the 
