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6th. Peritonitis set in through the night; temperature 103; 
pulse 75, wiry; respiration rapid, patches of perspiration over 
the body, tongue dry, constant pain, up and down, pawing 
continually, occasionally takes a swallow of water. 
7th. Symptoms aggravated, pain more intense; from this 
time on until the 12th inst. there was little change; up or 
down he pawed continually, but to-day he is more easy ; took 
a few mouthfuls of mash, also a little water; temperature 
ioi°, pulse 55. 
13th. Stands up two or three hours at once, when down 
lies quiet; at my first examination, I took a few small dung 
balls from him, but he has passed no fasces since, I therefore 
put my hand into the rectum, and beyond the puncture 1 
found a large amount of hardened fasces which I carefully 
removed ; the next day he defecated freely, appetite is improv¬ 
ing, but the animal is covered with abrasions, and lost more 
flesh in the same length of time than I ever saw before. 
From that time recovery was rapid; he is now at work as 
well as ever, though not in as good flesh. 
The only treatment I resorted to was hypodermic injection 
of morphine, and spraying the rectum daily. 
A TEDIOUS CASE OF GRANULAR DERMATITIS—GOOD RESULTS 
FROM PEPSIN WHEN OTHER TREATMENT FAILED. 
By Alrert Sheldon, D.S.V., House Surgeon to the A.V. Hospital. 
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On July 25, 1892, there was admitted to the hospital a 
chestnut gelding with a large ulcer on the near hip. The 
history of the case was that for some time past the horse had 
a great desire to rub himself, and had so irritated the part 
that on the point of the hip a surface as large as a man’s hand 
was entirely raw, looked angry and unhealthy. 
We dressed the wound with a solution of creolin, after 
removing all sloughing skin, cauterized it lightly with silver 
nitrate, and replaced the light blanket, first putting an oakum 
pad over the wound. It progressed very well and was 
closing nicely, when on August 13th the horse broke his 
