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tremities extended backward. Her pulse was eighty, respira¬ 
tion forty, temperature one hundred and four. Taking hold 
of her nigh leg you could put it in any position, and could 
hear crepitation. On turning the animal over I found the 
other leg the same. 
I diagnosed it as either a fracture at the head of the femur 
or dislocation of both femurs. I advised the owner to destroy 
the cow, and in the afternoon I would call and make an 
autopsy. 
On my arrival at the time specified the owner had cut 
through the symposis pubis and destroyed it. He had also 
cut both the muscular and ligamentons attachments, separat¬ 
ing the femur from the pubis. 
Enough was left, however, to show me that the coxo 
femoral ligament of both extremities was ruptured, and also 
that the capsular ligament and the head of the femur were 
dislocated, posteriorly in both legs. 
This, to me, was an unique accident, caused, I think, by the 
cow trying to get up on a slippery floor. 
RUPTURED STOMACH OF OLD STANDING. 
By F. Saunders, D.Y.S. 
At two o’clock upon the morning of November nth I 
received a call to attend an animal said to be suffering from 
colic. Upon arriving at my destination, I found a chestnut mare 
suffering intense abdominal pain. I immediately administered 
one and one-half ounces of chloral, in giving which I noticed a 
terrible odor coming from her mouth, which strongly re¬ 
sembled that coming from a diseased tooth, and fancied 
while giving the ball that I felt a loosened molar. The sub¬ 
ject presented no flatulency. I remained with her one hour and 
a half, when I left her, she being well under the influence of 
the chloral. At 9 o’clock upon the morning of the same day I 
received another call from the same party, and arrived just as 
death took place. 
The history of this case is a little out of the common run, 
and is as follows : One month previous to her death they be- 
