REPORTS OF CASES. 
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dyspnoea very marked ; countenance anxious and eyes staring. 
He exhibited all the symptoms of aconite poisoning, except that 
he did not salivate. I questioned the owner sharply, but he said 
positively the horse had received no medicine whatever. 
For the time being, I became, a disciple of Hahnemann 
{svnilia similibits mranhir\ and gave tine, aconite rad., 1.5, 
repeating the dose in fifteen minutes. This afforded him relief, 
so that at 9.30 p. m. I left, with instructions that if he again be¬ 
came restless to give him sod. bicarb., apply mustard to the ab¬ 
domen, and call me np, as I was within walking distance. 
When I called Monday morning, I found my patient of the 
night previous in the field, ready for burial, the owner telling 
me that he died at i o’clock A. M. Had no further pain after I 
left, and died very quietly. At noon of the same day I held a 
post-mortem. 
On opening the abdomen I found pieces of grass and parti¬ 
cles of ingesta adhering to the viscera and abdominal walls; the 
intestines were very nearly normal in appearance. Here and 
there along their course could be seen very small inflammatory 
patches. The abdomen contained five gallons of fluid, which 
seemed to be only water slightly tinged with blood. The great 
omentum was so mixed up and wrapped around about one peck 
of masticated oats and hay, that it could be with difficulty sep¬ 
arated and withdrawn from the mass. On removing the stom¬ 
ach, the cause of all the trouble was found ; it was ruptured very 
nearly the whole extent of its greater curvature, the rent ex¬ 
tending from one inch from the cardiac opening to two inches 
of the pyloric ring. The edges of this wound were not fresh, a 
considerable blood clot adhering. I should judge from the ap¬ 
pearance that it was at least twenty-four hours old. 
My reason for reporting this case is because the symptoms 
were so different from what is usually seen in rupture of stom¬ 
ach. At no time during his illness did he sit on his haunches 
or lie on his back—two very diagnostic symptoms that I have 
seen ; and the absence of pain, I mean such pain as would be 
expected with such a lesion. 
IS IT HOG CHOTERA? 
By J. A McCrank, D. V. S., Plattsburgh, N. Y. 
broin time to time I have noticed in the columns of our 
veterinary journals that some practitioner gave the history of 
some case, new to him, that came under his notice, in his practice. 
He asked for information on the matter from older practitioners 
