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India is known as “ Kat Basanta.” It is reported to occur in 
that area every year. 
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Peculiar Laceration of the Tracheal Mucous in a 
Horse [iL Eaplisham, M. R. C. V. S .].—A few days after being 
purchased this hve-year-old horse is sick. He has high fever, 107 
F., pulse 80, and his ailment is diagnosed broncho pneumonia, 
for which he is put under treatment. After a few days, while 
the temperature runs down to 105, he is taken with dyspnea, and 
roars so loudly that he is heard 30 yards away. Tracheotomy is 
performed. The finger introduced feels in the trachea a mem¬ 
brane almost blocking* the lumen of the wind pipe. The tracheo¬ 
tomy tube introduced had to be taken off as it increased the diffi¬ 
culty in breathing. Gradually the horse grew worse and died the 
fourteenth day from the beginning* of his illness. At the post-mor¬ 
tem “ the trachea was found divided throughout its entire length 
by a transverse septum formed by the mucous membrane on the 
posterior or upper part of the tube, being torn from the fibro- 
elastic membrane forced downward.” This membrane was red 
and inflamed, the lungs showed lesions of pneumonia.— {Veter. 
Record .) 
FRENCH REVIEW. 
By Prof. A. Liautard, M.D., V.M. 
Femoro-Tibial Arthritis and Femoral Osteomyelitis 
[ Capt. C. Lcsbie, Army Veterinarian ].—A fourteen-year-old 
horse received a kick on the internal face of the left shank. There 
is a little wound on the superior extremity of the tibia with swell¬ 
ing running up to the left stifle joint. The horse is very lame. 
A wide blister is applied and the wound dressed with iodine. The 
leg is, however, the seat of lancinating pains, which do not sub¬ 
side, although repeated counter-irritation is applied, and yet the 
swelling* has diminished and the wound healed. There is a very 
painful exostosis of the upper epiphysis of the tibia. Hot brick 
applications seem to give some relief. The wasting of the muscles 
of the leg* is very marked and electricity applied. Notwithstand¬ 
ing all, the condition of the animal grew worse, and finally he was 
sold to a butcher. 
Post-mortem revealed extensive lesions of osteitis, of arthritis 
and osteo-myelitis. The superior extremity of the tibia was cov¬ 
ered with osteophytes. In the femoro-tibial joint, although there 
was no effusion, there were extensive lesions involving* the tibia. 
