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grass, and when walking would give away slightly, recover 
and walk on, would lie down, seeming to rest, and not very 
often either; showed no violent symptoms of abdominal pain, 
would reach around and bite lightly at her sides. Oct. 5th, Sun¬ 
day, about same symptoms, only that during the night of the 
4th she broke her stall. They attributed that to being cast, she 
at times having trouble getting up, owing to the paralysis. 
Oct. 6th she showing no change for the better, he concluded 
to call me; when we arrived the mare had been dead thirty 
minutes. It was very dark After looking at the body I re¬ 
marked, “ She looks to me as if she had had some abdominal 
trouble,” but never dreaming of such by his description of 
symptoms, etc., I concluded I would hold post-mortem. After 
removing abdominal muscles, etc., very carefully I was sur¬ 
prised to see the intestines burst out; the peritoneum had 
ruptured about eighteen inches in the median line. The ab 
dominal cavity contained a great deal of bloody fluid ; all 
other organs seemed healthy as far as I could see by the poor 
light (we were in the woods); the injesta of coecum and colon 
were dry and hard. The surprise was still to come. On 
reaching the stomach I found it very large and containing 
very compact injesta. I took it out, sent for scales, and found 
it and contents to weigh forty-two pounds. I cut around the 
greater curvature and removed the stomach ; there lay the con 
tents perfectly moulded ; had to be pulled apart; found corn, 
oats, grass, etc. I do not think anything passed from her 
stomach from Sept. 30th, and that the weight of it ruptured 
the peritoneum. The mare’s weight was not over eight hun¬ 
dred and fifty pounds. 
American Veterinary College—Hospital Department. 
RECURRENT TUMORS IN A BITCH. 
By A. F. Beoker, D.Y.S., House Surgeon. 
This patient was a spaniel bitch, nine years old, brought 
to the hospital for a large, firm growth about four inches in 
diameter, adjacent to and behind the posterior mammary 
gland, close to the inguinal regions. The tumor had been 
there about three months and was now increasing rapidly. 
