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not go off her food, the pulse and*temperature keeping about 
normal; the wound being dressed with antiseptic and healing 
lotions, and only discharging a very little. 
After that time the discharge increased, and the mare 
began to go off her food, the pulse became irregular and the 
temperature varying, sometimes being nearly normal and 
then rising to 103-4 0 . In about three weeks from the time of 
the accident the mare refused all food, the pulse became very 
irregular, and the temperature kept to about. 103-4 0 . She 
also began to purge very badly, and the discharge from the 
wound increased enormouslv, the respirations were short and 
hurried, and confined to the abdominal region—the mare ex¬ 
hibiting every sign of pleurisy or hydrothorax. The ordinary 
remedies were used, and the mare fed chiefly on milk, but she 
gradually grew weaker, and died about five weeks after the 
accident. 
A post-mortem examination exhibited most interesting 
appearances, the shaft had pierced the thoracic cavity, enter¬ 
ing it between the second and third ribs and just touching 
the pericardial sac. The plenrisy was confined only to that 
part of the thoracic cavity pierced by the shaft, and a very 
small amount of serum found in it. The pericardial sac, how¬ 
ever, showed most peculiar appearances ; upon being opened 
quite two gallons of fluid escaped, and around the heart a 
coagulation of lymph had taken place covering both auricles 
and ventricles, being over an inch thick and studded all over 
with little pyramids, both being of a bright yellow color. As 
I had never seen or heard of anything similar before, I thought 
it might be of interest to your readers, and would be glad if 
you would insert it in your paper.— Ibid. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION—SESSIONS 1891-92. Edited by W. Horace Hoskins. 
For the last twenty-nine years this national body of veteri¬ 
narians has been holding yearly and semi-yearly meetings, 
ostensibly for the advancement of their profession. But it 
rather seems that the work which has been accomplished at 
