REPORTS OF CASES. 
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buchu and uva ursi for kidneys. The pain ceased, urine cleared 
up and animal ate bran mash and drank water. Continued well 
for two days, when I was called in the evening, finding animal 
suffering considerable pain. Gave morphine injection, which 
quieted the animal. Waited one hour, and as pain did not re¬ 
turn, I left, with word that I would be around in the morning 
to get her hide for a robe and hold post-mortem. The hide is 
being tanned. Post-mortem appearances were healthy except 
the concave part of the pelvic flexure of the large colon, for six¬ 
teen inches, which was black and about six inches thick, there 
being some pus of an offensive odor ; also, numerous fibrous 
branches running in all directions. 
PUNCTURED WOUNDS OF THE ABDOMEN. 
By E. H. Koheer, D. V. S., Easton, Pa. 
Case I .—On the evening of July 9th, 1901, a suckling colt 
jumped upon a picket fence and ran one of the pickets into his 
abdomen ; the bowels protruded, but were replaced by the owner 
and held in place by a broad bandage. I was then called. Upon 
arrival the colt was bright and active and not a particle dis¬ 
tressed. He was cast and his hind parts raised. With the aid 
of a poor lantern and the help of the farmers I removed the 
bandage and examined the wound. It was an opening one and 
one-half inches long, situated about four inches from the median 
line, and about four inches in front of the stifle, running 
obliquely inwards and forwards. The skin was incised for an¬ 
other inch to allow us to replace the bowels, which was done 
quite easily. The ruptured muscle was then sutured with silk, 
as was also the skin, the wound dressed with mild antiseptics, 
and the colt allowed to rise. Upon rising he showed a little 
distress, but I gave him a few doses of opiates. Next day the 
distress had disappeared, temperature and pulse nearly normal; 
was sucking the mare. Have not since seen him, bnt was in¬ 
formed by the owner that it healed without any complications 
in about two weeks. 
Case II .—On July 20, 1901, a two-year-old colt punctured 
his abdomen behind the sternum and a little to the left of the 
median line, with an elder stalk, which broke off and remained 
in until pulled out, after which part of the omentum and a 
quantity of serum followed. The stalk was three and one- 
eighth inches long and five-eighths of an inch in diameter. 
The omentum that followed was amputated, the wound dressed 
