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not entertaining the least idea, however, that the patient would 
rccovci the internal damage which he supposed the object had 
wrought. 
Upon regaining consciousness, the animal staggered around 
the yard, diank a bowl of water and indicated a temperature of 
io6° associated with great thirst. 
The urine passed was a reddish color. On the subsequent 
day the dog was cheerful to a surprising degree, the febrile con¬ 
dition had disappeared ; irregular respiration only remaining. 
For three days no faeces had been passed. On the fifth day 
the sutures were removed ; only fluid nourishment being tendered 
the patient. The wound now began cicitrizing, and the irritation 
due to this natural process, induced the animal to scratch it ; 
the result was an abcess of considerable extent, which in its turn 
was also evacuated. 
The dog finally made a complete recovery. This case is 
truly a paradoxical one ; how the body contained such a long 
object as that mentioned, without being lacerated fatally, is be¬ 
yond all conjecture. It is not to be supposed, that of his own 
volition, the patient actually swallowed this stick; but rather 
that having had one end of it in his mouth and accidentally 
receiving an impulse upon the other free end it was forced liter¬ 
ally down his throat .—Berliner Wochenschrift. 
SARCOMA OF THE PERIOSTEUM. 
In the dog it is not uncommon to find a general sarcomatous 
condition of the lymphatic glands, associated with symptoms 
simulating leucaemia. The observation of Frohner, however, is 
somewhat out of the usual line; he reports a case of extensive 
sarcoma formation of the periosteum with metastatic affection 
of the kidneys and lungs, which lesions induced symptoms of 
an exceedingly painful arthritic rheumatism. 
On May 30th a seven-year-old male pointer was brought to 
the hospital, with the history that for the last three weeks the 
same had evinced pain and lameness in rising and walking, and 
especially when ascending steps. The rectal temperature indi- 
