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FRENCH REVIEW. 
Stomachkal Indigestion in the Horse {By Mr, E. 
Micheliv ^.—Of course, all horses that vomit during attacks of 
colic do not have ruptured stomachs, and as a consequence die. 
The author reports one more proof of this in the Remeil de Medec. 
Vet.^ in speaking of -a mare that, after a journey of some 20 
miles, drank half a pail of water, refused her meal, and was 
taken with colic. She paws, looks at her flanks, lays down, 
month is dry, breath acid, she has vomited three times and ex¬ 
pels through nose undigested food, with a characteristic chym¬ 
ous odor, indicating their origin. Chamomile tea and alcohol, 
injection of 10 centigrammes of pilocarpine, stimulating friction 
and walking is the treatment. After a few hours of relief, late 
in the evening the trouble returns more severe than before. 
The coiic is very violent, a severe diarrhoea has taken place, the 
body is covered with cold sweat, the extremities are cold, the 
pulse is scarcely perceptible; in half an hour she had three 
spells of vomiting, and the author, considering the animal lost, 
orders some hygienic attentions for the balance of the night and 
retires to prepare the report of the death of the animal. 
In the morning the mare was well. After eating her ration, 
and stealing that of her neighbor, she travelled her 28 kilo¬ 
metres. 
CEsophageae Obstructions. —Called to see an old horse 
which had swallowed an apple and presented all the indications 
of choking. Mr. Esmien, reporting the case in the Rec2ieil^ 
tried various means to relieve the patient. External taxis, with 
moderate pressure upwards, after oiling the oesophagus with a 
small drench, proved unsuccessful. The difficult catheterisin 
carefully applied revealed the exact position of the apple, but 
did not permit its displacement. As it was located in a good 
place for the operation of oesophagotomy, it was performed the 
next day, and in waiting the author gave 15 centigrammes of 
pilocarpine and eserine each. The next morning the animal 
was well—he had salivated profusely and about three hours 
after the injection had drank a large pailful of water without 
losing a drop. In a second case, that of a three-months-old 
calf, the same treatment was followed with the same results, 
when all the other means recommended—taxis, the use of the 
probaug, and even puncture of the rumen—had failed. In two 
hours the calf was well. 
Cryptorchidy. —The operation of castration in cryptorchids 
