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RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH OF A HORSE. 
It was the cuticular portion. In addition to these ulcers 
there were three good-sized tumours, each being as large as 
a big -walnut, and having a small opening at the top. I 
made a vertical incision through each, and found that the 
cavity within was about half an inch in diameter, and some¬ 
what less than an inch in depth. The contents consisted of 
a muco-purulent-looking fluid, a gritty substance like sand, 
and scores of minute worms similar to those found in the eye 
of the horse, but smaller. Each worm was about the third 
of an inch in length, and the thickness of very fine sewing 
cotton. Their colour was whitish and semi-transparent. At 
each end they tapered to a fine point. Were they filaria? 
Have you ever seen them in the stomach ? If so, how do 
they get into it—with the food, or water, or how ? 
When the worms were first removed from their nidus they 
were quite lively, but died in about ten minutes afterwards. 
Is it not strange that horses with these lesions, akin to 
ulcers and abscesses in the stomach, look healthy, feed well, 
do their work all right, and are never sick until they are 
suddenly attacked with gastro-enteritis, when the coats of 
the stomach give way, and the animal dies in some ten to 
twenty hours? 
Several cases of ulceration and rupture of the stomach 
have occurred in my practice, but only this solitary one 
where worms have been found within cysts connected with 
the lining membrane. 
To the above case allow me to append the following 
statement, as an example of the way in which veterinary sur¬ 
geons are treated in India. One of our assistant-surgeons 
completed six years 5 service on the 5 th of this month, and 
from that date he takes rank as a captain, as a matter of 
right, and without any examination. Prior to the 5th 
instant I ranked senior to him, but I am now of course his 
junior. Is this fair? Has it a tendency to make veterinary 
surgeons zealous in the performance of their duties and fond 
of their profession and the military service, or the reverse ? 
I have been three years longer in the army than the assistant- 
surgeon in question, and I am his senior in age by four years, 
but I remain a subaltern in rank, and (for all I know to the 
contrary) have every prospect of being one for the next 
eleven years. Although I am now in my tenth year of ser¬ 
vice I am still upon the pay of a cornet of cavalry, and shall 
be for several months more. On completing ten years I 
shall get the magnificent increase of the difference between a 
cornet's and lieutenant’s allowance, i.e. I shall come upon 
