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fusing food, limb very much enlarged, pulse 95, temperature 
102.2°. I considered the case hopeless but repeated doses of 
tine, aconite (Fleming). 10 miniuns were given. 15th.—Exhibit¬ 
ing great pain, mare worse, sedatives continued. 16th.—Mare 
sinking fast; applied for a station board to assemble and they 
considered the mare should be destroyed, which was done at once, 
at 2 p. m. 
Post-mortem .—The internal organs healthy; the near tibia 
was fractured for near 10 inches, running in a longitudinal direc¬ 
tion from two inches above the seat of injury and finally 
with dividing posteriorly, great deposit of permanent callus up to 
line of fracture. [This specimen as presented to the Museum of 
the Bombay Veterinary College by Mr. Meredith, is the most re¬ 
markable one of fracture of tibia we have ever seen ; a spiral 
crack runs round a considerable part of the bone, and callus has 
been thrown out everywhere over the surface (where the pericos- 
teum extends) of ejection as sequestra, but had cure occurred 
the tibia must have remained enormously and permanently 
thickened.]— {Ibidem.) 
UNUSUAL RESULTS OF CASTRATION. 
By V. S. Gerald H. Fenton, F.R.V.S.. Army Veterinary Dept., Kamptee, 
India. 
From the peculiar circumstances which have occurred during 
the past three months in the cases of some recently castrated 
horses, I am induced to record the same, never having experienced 
these conditions in my practice before these cases happened in 
the 4th “ P. W. O.” Madras Light Cavalry, amongst the Persian 
remounts, 145 of which have been castrated here, an unusually 
large number for one regiment. 1 am particularly referring to 
laminitis as a peculiar sequel of castration. About twenty-five out 
of this number, after being castrated from five to ten days, were 
reported as not being able to take their usual gentle exercise 
owing to fever in the feet. These symptoms varied very much 
in intensity in the different cases. In some instances both forefeet 
were affected and not the hind; in others one fore, and in the 
