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On rectal examination I could feel the concretions in the 
bladder with the end of my middle finger, after evacuating 
the bladder. I advised the owner to have the dog operated 
upon, but he would not consent. The animal is at the present 
time doing well. 
COCAINE IN CARPAL TENOTOMY. 
By the Same. 
I injected § i of cocaine under the skin, over the seat of 
the operation. Rubbed on the outside of the skin a few* 
drops; brought the opposite leg forward, made the incision 
through the skin tissues and synovial sheath. Passed a blunt 
pointed tenaculum under the tendon, bringing it well out of 
the groove, and separated it, the animal not moving the leg 
at all during the operation. 
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RUPTURE OF THE RECTUM IN THE HORSE, AS A COMPLICA¬ 
TION OF THE FORCED DECUBITAL POSITION. 
By Mr. F. Mauri. 
The author gives three observations of similar accidents. 
In the first, a stallion was thrown and secured for castration. 
While the clamp was applied on the left spermatic cord, he 
struggled violently, and his efforts were followed by a prolap¬ 
sus of the rectum about one foot and a half in length. It was 
reduced immediately and while pressure was maintained over 
the anus the operation was finished on that side, and the right 
testicle then exposed. While the second clamp was applied, the 
animal struggled again still more violently, and the rectum 
was pushed back a second time, and with it a large portion of 
the small intestines, and about two yards of the floating colon. 
The operation of castration was closed, and the reduction of 
the intestines completed, but the result was not doubtful, the 
animal dying during the night. The post mortem revealed 
both a rectal laceration and one of the meso-colon. 
In the second case, already reported by Mr. Trasbot, in 
1888, the subject secured also for castration, had already been 
operated on one side, when at the enucleation of the second 
