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which had had a colt and was in a critical condition. On my 
arrival, I found a sorrel mare in a large stall standing up, in 
a comfortable, though somewhat weak condition. 
In a corner of the stall lay the colt, with placenta almost 
separated where the mare had foaled. I removed the pla¬ 
centa and found it was about a nine month foetus. Partly under¬ 
neath lay another colt. 1 separated it from the placenta and 
found it a seven months colt, both in a well formed condition 
but dead. In the afternoon I met the owner in his stable down¬ 
town and was telling him what I found. He said, he did not 
know she was in foal; his man standing by remarked, “ don’t 
you remember, when she went to the farm the first of Octo¬ 
ber the colt served her ; then we tried her again the begin¬ 
ning of December to the old horse and she took him he said 
he saw her take both. The difference in the development of 
the colts clearly shows there were two conceptions. - This 
mare was brought to the city in April, and had worked with 
her mate at hard work until this occurred. Thinking this an 
interesting case, I have forwarded it for publication. 
American Veterinary College—Hospital Department. 
LACERATED WOUND OF SCROTUM IN A STALLION—RAPID RE¬ 
COVERY BY ANTISEPTIC TREATMENT. 
By W. Lab aw, D.V.S., House Surgeon. 
This was a simple case, which, however, serves to illus¬ 
trate the value of antiseptic applications in veterinary sur¬ 
gery. 
The subject was a black stallion, one of a team of four-in 
hands, belonging to the Barnum & Baily circus. lie was 
kept, as all the horses in that establishment are, while the 
show is traveling, viz.: under a tent, and only separated 
from his companions by a flying bar. While this bar was 
about being adjusted, and the spike upon which it was to be 
secured was being driven into the ground, the stallion backed 
upon it, and in moving away tore his scrotum, almost entirely 
separating by a transverse and somewhat curved section, the 
external covering of the testicles. The wound extended the 
