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REPORTS OP CASES 
cured by three or four knots each. During the night she had 
passed but little fceces and these were quite hard. To avoid as 
much as possible, the foeces collecting in rectum, gave frequent 
injections of warm suds. Fed same as yesterday. 
Sept. 28 th .—Sutures remain intact. Passed some foeces—a 
little softened—during the night, but nothing more during the 
day. Appetite good and temperature, pulse, and respiration, nor¬ 
mal. Continued injections and same food. 
Sept. 29 th .—Found this morning that the foeces were collect¬ 
ing in rectum and being forced through into vagina. As the 
edges could not possibly unite under such circumstances, the su¬ 
tures were all removed and we found, after their removal, that 
not the slighest adhesion had taken place. After this the parts 
were simply kept clean and on October 5th, when the mare went 
home, the mucous membrane of rectum and vagina had very 
nearly united, a very narrow granulating surface remaining—thus 
making one large common opening. 
REPORTS OF CASES, 
AN EXTENSIVE OUTBREAK OF ANTHRAX WITH GREAT VARIA¬ 
TION OF SYMPTOMS AND THE REMARKABLE EFFECTS OF 
POTASH, CHLORATE AND ACID CARBOLIC AS A PREVEN¬ 
TIVE AND CURATIVE AGENT. 
By J. Dutoliffe, V.S. of Middletown, N. Y. 
During the past two months my attention has been called to 
the outbreak of splenic apoplexy among eight herd of milch 
cows—a total of 167 cows—also a number of calves and one 
horse, causing a loss of twenty-one cows, four bulls, two calves 
and one horse. The first notice I had of it was early in August 
on a farm owned by Mr. Walling, near Hampton, owner of sixty 
cows. A self-styled veterinary surgeon had been called in on the 
day the first cow showed symptoms (three days previous to my 
being called). Diagnosis: Hollow horn and nails in stomach. 
Up to the time of my arrival (about 9 p. m. Aug. 10) seven cows 
had died. I examined five cows, which were in a stable, suffering 
from the disease. Diagnosis: Splenic apoplexy. I ordered the 
