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blankets. But the main thing remains, that help be brought just 
so soon as it is noticed that the diarrhoea lies set in.— Adam's 
Wochenschr. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
RUPTURE OF THE LIVER. 
By W. H. Pendry, D.V.S. 
1 was lately called to see a fine bay carriage horse, seven 
years old, said to be lame; to use the owner’s words, “ Not exactly 
lame, but shows a peculiar arching of the back, drawing himself 
all together, as it were, when starting off, particularly after having 
stood some little time.” I made a careful examination, could find 
no cause for such a state of things as described by the owner; in 
fact, could not make the horse lame, with the exception of a very 
slight stringhalt in her hind leg. The owner requested me to use 
the horse for a day in the hope that he would exhibit some of 
the symptoms described by him. I did so, but he failed to show 
anything. I wrote the owner the result, but stating that, from 
the history, I was of the opinion that there was some organic 
trouble, but just what I was unable to say, and he having asked 
me to advise him whether to keep or sell the horse, I advised him 
to sell at once. About a week after I was again called to the 
same stable to treat a case of colic. On arriving there I found 
this same horse to be the cause of my hurried call. I found him 
laying in his stall partly on his back, almost quiet, with his feet 
up against the side of the stall. After considerable trouble he 
was got upon his feet, and on examination I found the pulse 
hardly perceptible, countenance anxious, perspiration pretty gen¬ 
eral, but more particularly about the abdominal walls, a peculiar 
trembling of the muscles of the off shoulder (supporting the 
theory that “ in liver complaint the horse is often lame in the 
right foreleg, as if the pain extended to the shoulder”), tempera¬ 
ture, 103 F. I however diagnosed the case as one of colic, with 
some complication, and gave a very doubtful prognosis. I 
administered sedatives, and had the horse turned into a loose 
