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old, recently purchased, has been ailing, and for ten days re¬ 
ceived twice a day a mixture in which entered half an ounce of 
tincture opii. Since six days she has passed no foeces. When 
seen she appeared comfortable, coat glossy, no pain, eating. 
Pulse 50, temperature 99, 2 F. conjunctiva bilious, no peristalis, 
rectum empty and dry, colon distended with hard mass. The 
treatment consisted of aloetic purgative, soap-water injections, 
eserine, chloride of barium, linseed oil, strychnine. Almost no 
result was obtained except towards the 15th day of the treatment 
when considerable pain was exhibited for the first time and a 
large quantity of foeces was expelled. From that on, recovery 
followed. No bad effects were noticed from the frequent use of 
chloride of barium, which was given in small doses.— (Vet. 
Journ .) 
Tetanus Treated With Antitetanic Serum and Hypo¬ 
dermic Injections of Sulphate of Magnesium—Recovery 
[George Heslop, L.VS.]. —Injured by barbed wire, this four- 
year-old mare developed tetanus. She received the first day 60 
c.c. of Parke, Davis & Co.’s anti-tetanic serum intravenously, and 
on one side of the neck ij4 ounce of a 15 per cent, sterile mag¬ 
nesium solution, injected hypodermically. Those were repeated 
six hours later. On the second day the same injections were re¬ 
newed, and also on the third day. On the fourth, fifth and sixth 
days the doses were reduced to 40 c.c. of serum and 1 ounce of 
magnesium, repeated twice. On the seventh, another reduction 
to 30 c.c. of serum and no magnesium. On the eighth day, same 
thing and on the ninth all treatment was stopped, the animal eat¬ 
ing well and entering into convalescence. Improvement was 
gradual after the fifth day. Chloral hydrate, dark stall, quiet¬ 
ness formed also essential parts of the treatment. One quite 
large abscess formed on the neck resulting from the injection of 
magnesium.— (Vet. Journ.) 
True Hemorrhoids in Horse [Prof. F. Hobday, F.R.C. 
V.S. and Guy Sutton, F.R.C.V.S.]. —For the past five months 
the driver of this thirteen-year-old coach horse has noticed that 
the animal showed acute irritation of the rectum after defecation 
and now when an action of the bowels takes place, a large and 
objectionable swelling as big as an ordinary orange is seen pro¬ 
truding for some few minutes from the anus. Examination per 
rectum revealed a large cluster of congested and dilated veins, 
just within the anus. Under the influence of cocaine, a Chinese 
