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REPORTS OF CASES. 
culosis was tested therefor March i, 1899, with negative results. 
On March 25 the patient refused food and water, and an ex¬ 
amination disclosed apparent pneumonia, which rapidly grew 
worse and developed symptoms of abscess of the right lung. On 
March 27 tympany also appeared, which was partly relieved by 
the administration of aromatics. The animal died a few hours 
later. 
Autopsy revealed multiple abscesses of the liver, with ad¬ 
hesions of the latter to the diaphragm and rumen. One abscess 
cavity communicated wih the rumen, another through an open¬ 
ing in the diaphragm with the upper portion of the right lung, 
thus accounting for the symptoms of pneumonia*and pulmonary 
abscess. The unruptured hepatic abscesses contained about one 
gallon of thick pus. The origin of the infection was not de¬ 
termined. 
II. Infection of Peritoneum After Removal oj Scirrhous Cord , 
Followed by an Abscess Between the Liver and Diaphragm, 
with Rupture Into Lung and Discharge of Pus Through 
Trachea . 
Patient (2016), a one-year grey gelding, castrated by castra- 
tor during spring of 1899, and presented at clinic October 26, 
1899, with two small scirrhous cords, each about 4 cm. diam., 
each with a fistulous opening. 
The two tumors were removed under chloroform anaesthesia 
and usual antiseptic precautions. The wounds were packed 
with iodoform gauze and sutured. 
On October 27 the tampons were removed and omitted. 
Temperature 101.4 0 F. Wound washed with 4:1000 sublimate 
solution. October 28, temperature 102.8 ; October 29, 103.4; 
30, 102 ; 31, 101.5 ; November i, 101.4 ; 2, 105.4 5 3 > 105.2 5 4 , 
105; 5, 103.4; 6, 101.8. November 7 to 14 the temperature 
vacillated between 101 and 103. During entire time appetite 
had been good, and the wounds had been dressed daily with 
1:1000 sublimate solution, and with some misgivings the patient 
was discharged on the 14th. The colt felt well and seemed 
right except for the erratic temperature. The wounds were well 
healed. 
On November 28 patient was returned to clinic with history 
that he had travelled home ten miles without difficulty, had 
been turned to grass and appeared well until November 22, 
when his feet and legs were found much swollen from hoof to 
body and the appetite had failed, along with a general aspect of 
serious disease. 
