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and allow the escape of any fluid that it might contain. He 
accordingly gave his consent, and with an ordinary trocar and 
canula I punctured it, allowing the escape of a bloody serum 
into the rectum. The tumor at once disappeared, and after 
giving a clyster of slippery elm water she passed a small 
amount of faecal matter. To allay the pain that was becoming 
more intense I administered chlo. hydr. 5 j, ol. lini. Oss, after 
which she ate a small quantity of hay and corn, during the 
remainder of the night she rested quietly, voiding faeces several 
times, but manifesting considerable pain at each passage. 
Another clyster was given during the following day, the pains 
subsided, and when night came she was on her feet ready for 
her rations seemingly as well as ever. Can any one give in¬ 
formation as to the nature of the tumors ? 
A FATAL DEMONSTRATION. 
By James A. Waugh, Y.S., Allegheny, Pa. 
Mr. Christian Fleiner, a well-known and self-educated 
veterinary practitioner of South Side, Pittsburgh, Pa., un¬ 
dertook early last June to show a liveryman and undertaker 
the proper way to treat a shoe-boil or elbow tumor without 
confining the subject with any of the usual methods of restraint. 
He grasped the shoe-boil or elbow tumor firmly with the left 
hand and then made a bold and free slash with a knife in the 
right hand, and the unfortunate beast struggled and the 
demonstrator’s knife slipped and cut a very large gash in his 
own wrist, also severed a large artery about the same time; 
then the stable hands hastily threaded some needles and he 
put eleven stitches in the wound, but was unable to arrest or 
control the hemorrhage, and fainted ; a medical man was sum¬ 
moned and dressed the wound and ordered the patient home. 
He attempted to treat himself without further medical or sur¬ 
gical assistance. Erysipelas developed shortly and he was re¬ 
moved to the South Side Hospital, wher e he died of septicemia, 
June 29, 1893. He was a very large and fine looking German, 
aged about 40 years, and was educated for the profession of 
chemistry, but abandoned it for the practice of veterinary 
medicine and surgery, without undergoing or embracing the 
