REPORTS OF CASES. 
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URETHRAL CALCULUS. 
By S. R. Howard, V. S., Hillsboro, O. 
^ A few months ago I was called to the farm of James Miner. 
W hen about to leave I was asked to wait until a horse was led 
out for my inspection. Was then asked if I had ever seen the 
horse before. Looked him over and replied I had not. Was 
then asked if 1 had ever seen him de/nnd before. Lifting his 
tail I immediately recognized in him a gelding I had seven 
years before operated on for urethral calculus; owner, Wm. 
Roads of this place. 
History .—Seven years ago the horse was subject to short 
and frequent attacks of supposed colic, from which he recovered 
quickly after being given the usual doses of soda, watermelon 
seed tea, etc. ^ He would make frequent successful attempts to 
urinate, especially while being worked. Owner said the horse 
had become valueless, as they could not plow a round with him 
and that every half hour or oftener he would stop, stamp, 
stretch out and urinate a little, lie down, roll in harness, etc., 
and then shortly appear all right. 
Mr. R. wanted some medicine for horse’s kidneys. I de¬ 
clined to prescribe and advised him to have the horse examined. 
This was done and in passing catheter I found an obstruction, 
which aft(irward proved to be a very rugged calculus lodged in 
the bulbous part of the spongy portion of the urethra. ^Horse 
weighed about twelve hundred pounds. I cast him and made a 
good-sized median incision right down onto the obstruction and 
worked it out with my fingers. It did not seem very adherent. 
No bleeding to speak of. Washed wound several times per day 
for a week with antiseptic lotion and did not stitch or otherwise 
bother it. Passed the catheter once to see if way was clear to 
bladder. Part of the urine passed out through the incision for 
about a week and then ceased altogether from that opening. In 
a few weeks I lost all trace of this horse until several months 
ago. ^ He is now a sound, useful horse, aged about twelve years, 
and in good flesh. 
I inclose you the calculus, weight two drachms, very ragged, 
and largest circumference measures three and one-half inches. 
TWO CASES OF TYPHOID IN THE HORSE. 
By Chas. W. Heitzman, M.D.C., New Orleans, La. 
These cases occurred about three months after the animals’ 
importation and after they had recovered from the so-called “ac¬ 
climating fever.” The premonitory symptoms were a lack of 
