REPORTS OF CASES. 
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and a few in the bladder. A few worms are also visible loose 
in the abdominal cavity and in the large bowels. 
Some weeks later another colt which had been kept in the 
same pasture, belonging to two druggists of this city, became 
sick and was treated by the owners until death. I held a post¬ 
mortem on the sly and found almost the same lesions as in the 
first case. 
Am treating at present a six-months-old filly, which has also 
been running in the same pasture, with the following symp¬ 
toms : Has occasional attacks of colic, after which it passes some 
pinworms, looks very emaciated, hair standing erect, pulse and 
temperature a little below normal, membranes cyanotic, mucus 
of mouth sticky, appetite capricious, shows great pain on pal¬ 
pation of abdomen, peristaltic sounds very loud and frequent, 
bloody watery diarrhoea with the odor of a dirty pig pen in 
summer, alternating with constipation. The animal has been 
very lively all summer, but now appears very weak and sleepy. 
Diagnosis: Helminthiasis, but may be extended into chronic 
gastrointestinal catarrh leaning towards enteritis, also periton¬ 
itis, nephritis and cystitis. 
TUMOR AND SCIRRHOUS CORDS. 
By A. W. Baker, Brasher Falls, N. Y. 
Case /.—A thoroughbred Jersey sold at a very low price on 
account of the presence of a large tumor on the anterior surface 
of the carpus. I was called to examine her, and advised an 
operation. 
The operation consisted in the removal of the tumor, which 
weighed twelve pounds and six ounces. In the centre of the 
tumor was an oval-shaped blood-clot about the size of a goose 
egg, and surrounded by a membrane so tough that it could not 
be torn with the fingers. The dry clot dropped from the cavity 
when liberated. The strip of skin removed was sixteen inches 
long and nineteen inches wide, tapering to a point above and 
below. The field of operation was first cleansed with creolin 
solution and the wound sutured, after bathing with corrosive 
sublimate solution (i to 1000). After-treatment consisted in 
placing the animal in slings and keeping the wound saturated 
with creolin solution for three weeks. During this time fresh 
dressing was applied but twice, after which the discharge of 
pus was very slight. 
The wound healed by granulation and with no swelling of 
the leg. The operation was performed in October, and now 
