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hard and at times a little bloody. He has no fever. Pulse is 
good, respiration normal—he is taken on treatment as having 
enteritis. Under proper diet his appetite improves, but is still 
capricious. Bicarbonate of soda is prescribed. The symptoms 
seem to subside some, yet his manure remains about the same. 
The horse eats fairly, but his general condition gets worse. He 
loses flesh rapidly, stands with his four legs brought under him, 
the sheath is swollen. Ausculation and percussion are negative. 
Examination of the urine shows absence of sugar or albumen. 
While the treatment with the bicarbonate of soda is kept up, mal- 
leine as injected, but gives only a negative reaction. Thirty-six 
hours after this injection the horse is paralyzed behind and finally 
dies the next day. At the autopsy were found: Small aseitic col¬ 
lection in the abdomen, digestive canal normal, kidneys show the 
histological lesions of chronic nephritis, bladder congested. In 
the thorax the lungs are emphysematous, pericardium the seat 
of pericarditis, heart contains fibrinous clots. Death was due to 
the intoxication following the injection of malleine.— ( Journ. de 
Zootech.) 
Mediate Contusion Produces Bursting of the Caecum 
[Mr. J. B. Piot-Bey ].—At the start of a race this nine-year-old 
Arab thoroughbred is violently thrown against a wooden post, 
on his right side and falls down with his rider. He gets up with¬ 
out trouble and is removed with an ambulance, when he is taken 
in a box stall. He lays down on the left side, his body is covered 
with perspiration, breathing is accelerated and loud, reflexes of 
the cornea are absent. On the right side of the body, near the 
elbow and the stifle, there are few cutaneous abrasions. The 
walls of the thorax and of the abdomen are normal, without in¬ 
dications of fracture or muscular ruptures. The horse died a 
few hours after the accident. The post-mortem revealed the ribs 
and their cartilages intact, bloody extravasation on the costal and 
abdominal region. In the abdomen all the organs are extensively 
congested and food is spread on their surface. The caecum is the 
site of a wide laceration, beginning about 20 centim. from the 
front of the organ and large enough to allow the introduction of 
a hand widely open. It measures over 10 centim. The lungs are 
normal. The heart is very large but without any apparent lesion. 
It is supposed that the caecum more or less full with liquids 
suddenly burst onen noon the enormous pressure of the contu¬ 
sion against the wooden post.— ( Bullet. de la Soc. Cent.) 
