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REPORTS OF CASES. 
ternally constituted the treatment. Death occurred on the 
night of the 15th, and the post-mortem on the morning of the 
16th revealed the following condition : About two feet of the small 
intestines had herniaed a ragged tear in the mesentery, and the 
gut was firmly constricted at each extremity of the loop, the 
confined portion being entirely strangulated and black from 
congestion, which had greatly thickened its walls. 
FRACTURE IN UTERO. 
By H. D. Fenimore, D. V. S., Knoxville, Tenn. 
A cow, well advanced in gestation, showed evidence of hav¬ 
ing been hurt without traces 
o 
of external injuries. She 
soon recovered with restora¬ 
tive treatment. About one 
month later was called to the 
same cow, suffering with a 
case of foetal distokia. The 
calf was delivered alive, but 
its right hind leg was bent 
out at right angle, near the 
lower third of the tibia, and 
a sharp spicula of bone was 
protruding through the skin 
on the inside. Boiling the 
bone separated the centres of 
ossification. The diaphysis 
showed positive evidence of 
green-stick fracture of the 
tibia, which had healed in 
this distorted condition in 
ntero. 
Anthrax in Hides Imported from China. —Washington, 
Sept. 20.—Acting Secretary Spaulding has written the State 
Department requesting that onr Consuls abroad be instructed 
to refuse authentication of invoices of hides of neat cattle from 
districts in which the cattle disease anthrax is known to exist. 
This action is taken at the request of the Secretary of Agricul¬ 
ture and in view of the fact that an outbreak of anthrax has 
occurred at Falls Creek, Pa., resulting in the death of animals 
and human beings in consequence of the manipulation in tan¬ 
neries of that place of hides imported from China. 
