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liq. strychnia above upper lip, and give liq. strychnise 3 lb 
aqua 3 iv, in a draught twice a day, and plenty of sloppy diet. 
March 20th, the lips are more pendulent, and the patient is 
quite unable to feed without assistance, the food being put into 
his mouth. He seems much distressed. Continue the draught and 
assist the animal as much as possible by continued small feeds. 
March 25th, no improvement, and the animal is getting 
weaker and weaker. Try the galvanic battery three or four 
times a day locally. 
March 27th, treatment of no avail. Patient rapidly losing. 
Give tonics and stimulants three times a day. 
April 1st, the patient weaker. Prognosis unfavorable; con¬ 
tinue treatment. 
April 11th, worse. All the tonic, stimulent, and nursing 
treatment of no avail; can do no more. Apply for a special 
casting committee to have him destroyed. 
April 12th, the patient died before the committee was con¬ 
vened. Post-mortem revealed all organs healthy, but very anae¬ 
mic. Discharged; died.— {Ibidem.) 
FRACTURE OF RADIUS IN A BROOD-MARE—AMPUTATION AND 
RECOYERY. ' 
By Prof. R. S. Huidekoper, M.D.,V.S. 
On April 3rd I was called to the country to see a brood-mare 
with a fractured forearm, and found the following interesting 
case, which demonstrates the fallacy of the rapid unfavorable 
prognosis and slaughter which' usually takes place when a valu¬ 
able breeding animal breaks its leg. April 3rd, 11 P. M., gray 
mare, 15-1, 10 years old, within six weeks of foaling, having 
been covered in June last by a valuable horse. The mare had 
been turned into the barn-yard the morning before, and was 
found in a half hour with a fractured forearm. She was stand¬ 
ing in rude slings, which pressed too much on the abdomen, and 
rendered her very uncomfortable. The off front leg was encased 
in a splint which had been admirably applied by the family physi¬ 
cian. On removing the splint I found a compound eomminu- 
