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attack, diagnosis of traumatic pericarditis was made and an un¬ 
favorable prognosis given. Small doses of digitalis three times 
daily was the treatment, and in a few days improvement was 
marked, appetite returning, fever abating, movements more 
free, and milk flow increased. In the following June on reexam¬ 
ination found a prominent tumor beneath and to right of ster¬ 
num, in the angle formed by the ensiform and last costal carti¬ 
lages. On opening a pint of grayish, very foetid pus escaped, 
and exploration of the cavity with the finger brought forth two 
irregular pieces of bone, resembling much a portion of the 
bone from a porterhouse steak, and as the cow had been con¬ 
tinually fed upon kitchen scraps, it seems quite certain that a 
bone had in this manner been swallowed, inducing the indi¬ 
gestion first noted, penetrated the rumen, passing forward to the 
right posterior surface of the pericardium, after which it trav¬ 
eled to the right and downward, emerging partly decom¬ 
posed at the point described.— {/our. Comp. Med. and Vet. 
Arch.') 
Tetanus in a Cat \By Dr. Otto Noack\ —Castrated June 
5tli, and on 14th showed stiffness of limbs, tail stiff and carried 
upwards, moving around with great difficulty ; two hours later 
stiff all over ; ears stiff and drawn together ; skin between them 
drawn in folds ; unable to move ; could be taken up and put 
down like a wooden block ; if placed on side no movement 
could be seen. Later in day trismus complete,mnable to swal¬ 
low, death occurring same evening.— {Jottr. Comp. Med. and 
Vet. Arch.) 
Intestinau Hernia Through Great Omentum in a 
CoET [By Dr. Geo. P. Tucker.^ Lincoln^ Nehd\. —yearling colt, 
presenting symptoms of digestive derangement for six to eight 
months, gradually increased until death from starvation. Au¬ 
topsy revealed a loop of intestines about twelve feet from stom¬ 
ach which had perforated the great omentum and rolled on it¬ 
self, forming a fibrous ring two inches thick surrounding the 
loop, so there was very little if any free portion of the omentum. 
Anterior to the loop the intestines were hypertrophied, and at 
the loop a cavity had formed as large as the stomach. Posteri¬ 
orly the intestines were of normal size, with merely a peculiar 
mottled appearance.— {Jour. Comp. Med and Vet. Arch.) 
Subcutaneous Injections of Iodine for Spavin and 
Ringbone. —In a pamphlet edition of the proceedings of the 
last annual meeting of the Manitoba Veterinary Association Dr. 
Spiers, of Virden, reports that he had read, some two years pre- 
