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The destructive track of the lightning could be traced 
from the right ear to the shoulder, and thence to the hoof. 
This last horse pressed forward upon the right side ; the right 
eye and nostril were much widened ; movement of the joints 
evidently normal; mucous membrane very pale ; pulse ioo, 
respiration 40, which symptoms receded after the expiration 
of twelve hours. At night the patient lay quiet, but the fol¬ 
lowing day uncertainty and weakness of gait characterized 
the movement. On the second day following a march of 
eighteen miles was made, but when the horse was called upon 
to trot weakness of the posterior limbs prevented ; this latter 
fact necessitated the animal's exclusion from the army.— Zeits. 
f. Vet. 
OESTRUS LARVAE IN THE PHARYNX. 
Limann noticed among a number of other horses more or 
less afflicted with symptoms, of throat irritation, a Remont 
gelding having evidently but just contracted a laryngitis. In 
a few days great difficulty was evidenced in the act of deglu¬ 
tition, but no increase in the body heat, or number of respir¬ 
ations. The subaural and parotic regions were not hypertro¬ 
phied. Nourishing clysters were necessitated by the con¬ 
tinued anorexia. Finally pneumonia appeared, and in seven 
days the patient was a cadaver. 
Post-mortem exposed a bilateral pneumonia in the gangren¬ 
ous stage, and in the stomach, which was much distended, 
numerous examples of the oestrus ; also in the membrane of 
the pharynx fourteen individual specimens of oestrus. 
ATRESIA ANI. 
Simader was called to examine a colt just purchased. The 
animal ate well, and defecated regularly through the labiae 
of the vulva. About the breadth of a hand, anterior to the 
superior angle of the vaginal opening, he detected a fold 
which contained a congenital foramen. The latter was sur¬ 
rounded by an annular muscle which offered considerable re¬ 
sistance to the introduction of the hand. 
