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with a great deal of pain, carrying more weight on the left 
leg, though the right was the seat of extensive lesions. 
Respiration was hurried; mucous membrane congested; 
pulse hard and quick; temperature 39.1 0 ; loins arched, 
unyielding to pressure; urine abundant and reddish colored. 
The animal stood up but a short time and dropped on the 
floor. 
For two days the colics increased, and resisted all opiate 
treatment. The animal when placed in slings was even then 
unable to stand. She died on the night of the seventh day 
following the injury. 
Post Mortem .—Lungs congested, entirely black, easily 
torn, especially the left; heart fibres very soft; stomach 
normal; intestines show slight enteritis; right kidney con¬ 
gested, with a few purulent centers; the left was also con¬ 
gested, and torn in its whole extent. The tear extended 
obliquely, from forward backward, from the hiius to the 
external border; it seemed to be divided into two portions, 
united only by the external envelope on the outside border; 
the medullar portions had several purulent collections con¬ 
taining a thick, greenish-white collection. A clot of blood 
united the torn pieces of the kidney, and extended between 
the peritoneum and the inferior face of the organ. The 
surrounding fatty tissue was reddish in color. It was evi¬ 
dently an ante-mortem laceration.— Rec. d. Med. Vet. 
TREATMENT OF ATROPHY OF THE CRURAL MUSCLES. 
By Messrs. Elbeuf and Rauyier. 
The following mode of treatment is recommended not 
only in atrophy of the crural muscles as observed in the 
sequelae of azoturia, which is seen in the affection commonly 
known as paralysis of the anterior femoral nerves, but has 
also proven of great advantage in atrophy of other muscles, 
especially those of the shoulders. 
On the 19th of January a horse is suddenly taken with 
paraplegia. Two days after he stood up but carries but little 
weight on the near hind leg. On the 26th the crural atrophy 
