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place, but seeing- the chloral have such control over the 
voluntary efforts of the animal to persistently strain, I 
thought it better to leave well enough alone and administered 
eight drachms of chloral, and in half an hour she was in a 
profound sleep lasting four hours, and remained drowsy as 
long more. After the effects of the chloral passed away, 
there was a tendency to tenesmus and she was given an injec¬ 
tion of opium and belladonna as before. 
The following morning she was apparently quiet, with an 
occasional elevation of the tail and passing a considerable 
amount of flatus from the rectum and expelling small quanti¬ 
ties of urine. She was now placed under local anodyne as 
required, fed on soft food, and on August 22d discharged ap¬ 
parently all right, the meatus urinarius having contracted to 
about half an inch in diameter. The bladder was considerably 
hardened and indurated, and the mucous membrane had a 
sort of a nodular feel, but being afraid that the same occur¬ 
rence might take place again I deferred making a further ex¬ 
amination. 
JABOT—OBSTRUCTION OF THE (ESOPHAGUS—OPERATION. 
ByR. R. Morrison, D.Y.S., House Surgeon. 
This animal was a sorrel gelding, six years of age, recently 
purchased, with a guarantee of soundness at the time of pur¬ 
chase. Five days after his examination he was fed with car¬ 
rots, which he ate greedily, and the next morning was found 
coughing up large quantities of saliva. He then presented 
an enlargement about as large as one’s hand, situated at the 
lower part of the neck, on the left side. The tumor was soft 
and puffy, somewhat movable, and when manipulated caused 
the animal to have spasms of the neck, followed by copious 
discharges of saliva and coughing. At that time the temper¬ 
ature was 102° ; pulse 54 and somewhat weak ; respiration 36, 
.with a slight sweating on the left side of the head and neck, 
the right side being quite cold. The diagnosis was made of 
a jabot, caused by a piece of carrot lodged in the oesophagus, 
and causing the obstruction by its dilatation. Simple means, 
