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the menisci and the patella. The synovia was thick and.rosy in 
color. A longitudinal section of the femur exposed handsome 
lesions of osteomyelitis.— ( Bullet. de la Soc. des Sc. Vet. de 
Lyon.) 
Traumatic Arthritis of the Right Anterior Fetlock 
[Mr. Bel, Army Veterinarian']. — Fulton, a six-year-old horse, 
breaks loose from his picket, runs away and when caught has a 
wound on the external face of the right fore fetlock, which pro¬ 
duces great lameness. This is disinfected with peroxide, dressed 
with iodine tinct., and a wadding dressing applied. The next day 
great swelling of the parts which are hot and painful, synovia 
escapes freely. Slings and blistering of the fetlock. Solution of 
hermophenyl io p. 1,000 is injected twice a day. Hydrophile 
wadding dressing. Same condition for a few days and the tem¬ 
perature goes up 39 degrees C. Cold water irrigations are used. 
As fever keeps going high (40 degrees C.) baths of cresyled 
water are used instead of the irrigations and injections of hermo¬ 
phenyl done three times a clay. After a few days as there is no 
improvement, a pencil of hermophenyl in the fistulous tract is 
added to the injections. Soon the synovial escape is arrested by 
formation of a clot, the fever subsides and the improvement sets 
in. Recovery followed afterwards without trouble.— (Ibid.) 
Curious Case of Dysphagia in a Dog [Mr. D. Bonnigal]. 
—Returning from a walk a dog is taken with violent spells of 
sneezing and he constantly rubs his nose with his paws as if an¬ 
xious to remove a foreign body. He remains in that condition 
for three days and then refuses all kinds of food. He has no 
fever, no discharge from the nose, the sneezing is gone but the 
dog refuses to eat and it is with great pain that he is made to 
swallow some spoonfuls of milk. The mouth is carefully ex¬ 
amined and seems to present nothing abnormal except a small 
yellowish body which seems to push its way into the cavity. 
Secured with a pair of forceps, it is pulled out. It is a hard bit 
of straw, 11 centimeters long, which had probably been sniffed 
up in the nasal cavities, protruded in the pharynx and was suffi¬ 
cient to prevent deglutition. As soon as it was moved, the dog 
went eating without difficulty. 
Chronic Nephritis in a Horse—Death Follows [ Mr . 
Rousseau, Army Veterinarian]. —This ten-year-old horse has 
poor appetite, he looks in poor condition, his droppings are small, 
