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The neck was violently twisted to the right, and she howled 
with pain when touched on the neck. The former treatment 
was resumed, starting with five drops of the tincture of nux 
vomica, combined with doses of bromide of potash to keep her 
quiet. On the 25th of April she became so nervous, and ap¬ 
parently showing symptoms of over excitement, that all other 
treatment was suspended for two days, during which she was 
kept under the influence of bromide in ten grain doses three 
times a day. 
On the 27th the administration of the nux was resumed in 
ten drop doses, and continued, still gradually increasing until 
the 18th of May, by which time she was taking twenty gtts. 
three times a day. For a week the large dose of one drachm 
of the tincture was given her every day, withput any symp¬ 
tom of strychnia poisoning manifesting themselves, but the 
patient gradually gaining in strength, and by degrees regain¬ 
ing the entire control of her muscular power. 
After receiving these doses of tinct. of nux vomica for 
about a week, it was again gradually diminished, until June 
5th, when'it was discontinued and the patient discharged, 
having entirely recovered, with only a slight springhalt of the 
left hind leg. When it is considered that the dose of nux 
vomica for a dog of her size is from one to five drops, the 
amount she took daily is certainly remarkable. 
EVENTRATION IN A MARE—RECOVERY. 
By R. N. Weightman, D.V.S. 
This case is simply reported to serve as a contribution to 
the history of lesions of the peritoneum in solipeds. 
On the 8th of July a farmer called upon me at my office 
and asked me to see a mare which had staked herself in the 
body, while throwing herself violently on the ground during 
an attack of colic. He informed me quite graphically, “ that 
some of her insides was coming out, along with a lot of fat.” 
I got to the case as quickly as possible and found a bad 
punctured wound on the near side, about three inches from 
the linea alba and midway between the ensiform cartilage and 
