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ing of the pelvis, passed a cord through that and brought it 
out and with a hook in the back and two good men pulling 
tried to relieve the mare, but could not. 
Then I tried to get the other hind extremity but could not 
move it at all. I then cut down on the point of the ischium 
and passed a cord over it. With good strong pulling I separ¬ 
ated it from the sacrum through the symphisis pubis. Then 
cutting down over the coxo-femoral articulation, passing a 
cord around the remaining portion of the pelvis and keeping 
a strong pulling on it, I succeeding in cutting and tearing it 
off at the lumbar vertebra, leaving the nigh hind extremity at¬ 
tached to the muscular tissue. 
Then getting a cord over the head of the femur, by pulling 
and cutting I separated the muscles and removed the extrem¬ 
ity. 
Then the difficulty was explained. The joints were com¬ 
pletely anchylosed. This explained why it was impossible to 
move the legs. I examined the leg I had first removed and 
found it in the same condition. After cutting the ribs and 
shutting them together I removed the rest of the foetus quite 
easily and found that the forward extremities were deformed. 
Gave the mare 3 iv whiskey and 3 ii tine, opii, clothed her 
warmly and removed her to a dry stall. Next day her tempera¬ 
ture was 301°, pulse 60, respiration 18. I gave 3i quinine 
and § ii whiskey every two hours. 
The mare continued to improve and is now turned out to 
pasture. 
Chas. H. Peabody. 
N. B.—The cut shown herewith gives a good illustration 
of the extremities. The one on the right is the nigh hind leg, 
that was removed whole from the pelvis. The ones on the 
left are the forward extremities from the carpus. 
C. H. P. 
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LARYNGEAL PARALYSIS OPERATION. 
By The Same. 
There was brought to my stable a bay horse seven years 
old, weighing about twelve hundred pounds. 
Performed tracheotomy and he wore a tube until Feb. 2d, 
