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abnormal apparent, except when np he shows stiffness behind. 
First, he was to be left at the place where he had been operated 
upon, but two hours later the owner called for and took him to 
his own barn. An hour later he was found down, and unable 
to get up. Post-mortem : Comminuted fracture of the body of 
the fourth lumbar. Case No . III .—A horse to be docked is 
placed in stocks. At the end of the operation he struggles 
desperately and throws himself violently on the front bar of the 
stocks. In backing out of the stocks, stiffness behind is noticed. 
He is placed in a box-stall sixty feet distant. Three-quarters 
of an hour later he is lying down and cannot get up. Post¬ 
mortem : Comminuted fracture of the body of the third lumbar. 
Case No. IV .—This eight-year-old heavy draft horse has never 
had an accident and never been ill. All at once he refuses food, 
has slight colic, and is laid up. He has all the appearances of 
an animal suffering with painful sickness. He paws, scrapes 
the bedding under him ; the abdominal muscles are hard, the 
flank contracted. His back is stiff, and every time he moves 
he groans loudly. It is the same at the time of defecation and 
micturition. In walking the movements are stiff, and when 
made to turn short it is with difficulty, and the loud groan he 
gives indicates great pain. Fearing a fracture by exclusion, the 
owner was advised to bring the horse to the college, where the 
same condition was observed and the diagnosis confirmed. After 
twenty-four hours the horse was unable to get up, and was killed. 
At the autopsy a comminuted fracture of the seventeenth dorsal 
was found. Can such a lesion be cured ? asks the author.— 
{Ann. de Bruxelles .) 
FRENCH REVIEW. 
By Prof. A. Liautard, M. D., V. M. 
Eruptive Affection in the Horse due to Ticks 
(Ixodes Reduvius) \G.Joly\. — Have these insects something 
to do with the icterus of Reblanc ? Such is the question asked 
by the author, when contemplating the eruptive disease which 
has appeared on several horses which had been grazing in the 
forest of Fontainebleau last May. Case I .—An officer’s saddle 
horse has a skin eruption on the head, neck, and the four ex¬ 
tremities ; it looks like horse-pox. No itching nor fever; the 
buccal and nasal membranes are healthy. There are numerous 
papulae varying in size, with a yellow secretion, gluing the 
