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while at pasture. When I arrived at the farm I found the 
horse standing in the barn and eating hay as if nothing had 
happened to him. The wound was situated on the right side 
of the abdomen, below the sixth false rib, and the omentum 
was protruding about two and a half feet, covered with coag¬ 
ulated blood and serum, and assuming an unhealthy color. 
Mode of Treatment: I severed the protruded omentum 
with the ecraseur close to the body ; then I washed and 
cleansed the parts well with a creolin solution ; then I plugged 
the wound with oakum well dusted with one part of iodoform 
and two parts of boracic acid, and the whole protected by a 
wide bandage similar to those recommended in umbilical 
hernia. I ordered the horse to be fed on bran mashes and 
linseed gruel. Five days later I removed the bandage and found 
a healthy-looking wound in a fair way of cicatrization. The 
wound was dusted every day with the iodoform and boracic 
powder. The horse made a good recovery and one month 
later was doing harvesting. 
AZOTURIA AND LITHIUM CITRATE. 
By Wm. R. Clatjssen, Y.S., Waupaca, Wis. 
On May 4th I was called to see a chestnut driving mare, 
seven years old. I had seen her an hour previous passing by 
my residence and noticed then a peculiar stiffness in her gait. 
On my arrival at the stable I found her down in the stall and 
diagnosed the trouble as azoturia. I administered lithium 
citrate and ordered warm applications to the loins after draw¬ 
ing off the urine, which did not appear so very highly colored. 
Pot. brom. was left to be given to quiet the extreme nervous 
excitability exhibited. The symptoms showed no ameliora¬ 
tion till the seventh day, when she got up and kept her feet 
for a short time. During the following days she received 
sol. Fowl, and nuc. vom., and her condition improved steadily 
so she was able to walk around on the barn floor, and after 
the lapse of a week the clonic muscular contractions, from 
which she had suffered to such an extent that she kept up a 
constant tripping with her hind feet, had entirely disappeared. 
