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When seen, he was dull; his head hanging in the manger and 
suffering from colicky pains; walking with difficulty; loins 
stiff; mouth thick and breath offensive; flanks tucked up; 
pulse small, quick, almost imperceptible ; temperature 39.5°C.; 
respiration irregular and abdominal; percussion and pressure 
on the chest painful; auscultation normal below, but behind 
the shoulder, in the middle of the thoracic walls causing a 
peculiar noise, a kind of crepitant rale, like that of pneumonia. 
Suspecting pleurisy, the animal was put under treatment 
for that affection. On the following day he was taken with 
symptoms of choking, standing with both legs widely apart. 
Peculiar changes soon showed themselves in the chest; there 
was dullness in the lower third on both sides, which kept 
gradually increasing, and pleuritic sounds were easily de¬ 
tected. After three days of suffering the animal died from 
suffocation. At the post mortem, extensive lesions of pleu¬ 
risy with effusion were discovered, but the lungs were healthy, 
together with the heart. Between the oesophagus and the 
cross of the posterior aorta, between the two layers of the 
mediastinum, there was a mass of food collected. There 
were two wounds on the tract of the oesophagus, one on the 
superior and one on the inferior plane of the organ. They 
were both rectilinear, from before backwards. The inferior, 
being also the smaller, extended through the mucous mem¬ 
brane only, while the superior, being much the larger, reached 
through both the mucous and muscular coats. The surround¬ 
ing structures were more or less inflamed.— Ibid. 
SPONTANEOUS GIVING WAY OF THE LATERAL LIGAMENTS OF 
THE HIND FETLOCKS IN A HORSE. 
By Me. L. Magnin. 
An unusual lesion had occurred in a mare, aged eleven 
years, while getting up in her stall. She had been in good 
health, eating well and doing her work up to two hours pre¬ 
vious, when she was found in her stall struggling to get up. 
When standing, both hind fetlocks were swollen and oedema- 
tous, the walk shortened, and the hind legs moving with hesita- 
