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region. Having during an attempt to operate while standing, 
shown himself dangerous in that position, it was decided to throw 
him down. Well prepared by the ordinary low diet prescribed 
in similar cases, he was cast without difficulty and with very little 
struggling. After first making some violent efforts, he remained 
comparatively quiet during the whole operation, making no par. 
ticular demonstration except a loud groan or grunt, which was 
ittributed to the pain inflicted by the cauterization. When oper- 
ited on upon one side he was turned over, behaving in the same 
nanner, and still groaning more or less loudly. The firing being 
;erminated, he was allowed to get up, which he seemed to have 
some difficulty in doing. But when once on his feet, there ap- 
leared manifest symptoms of some very severe injury. He was 
iaken with muscular twitchings, and showed signs of colic pains; 
he face was anxious, and the pulse thready or insensible. A 
aceration of some internal structure was suspected, and after 
/arious alterations of relief and relapse, the animal, after two 
1 lours of suffering, suddenly fell aud died. 
At the post mortem, on opening the abdominal cavity the 
mtire intestinal mass seemed to partake of the lesions. They 
vere all displaced, the coecum being concealed by the intestinal 
iircumvolutions, and the pelvic curvature of the large colon lying 
lear the diaphragm. The coecum, which was twisted upon itself 
fund was strangulated by a fold of the small intestine, presented 
>n its superior face a transversal rupture, being torn for some 8 
)r 10 centimeters, and perpendicularly to one of the re-enforcing 
lands of the superficial muscular layer of the organ. This lacer¬ 
ation was evidently ante-mortem, as shown by the condition of its 
idges. The other organs of the abdomen presented lesions cor- 
j 'esponding to that resulting from the injury to the coecum, but 
vere otherwise healthy.— Rec. de Med. Vet. 
RUSHING OF THE FOOT—CONTINUED IRRIGATION—RECOVERY. 
By M. Bandelocjhe. 
The good effects which may be expected to follow the judicious 
pplication of the hydropathic treatment, are illustrated by this case. 
The patient’s left fore foot had been crushed by the wheel of 
