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was about fifteen years. He was taken with abdominal pains, 
without the manifestations of intestinal obstructions, as he 
had and was passing faeces at the time. The animal was seen 
by M. Butel, who obtained this fact from making a rectal ex¬ 
amination. After four or five hours of suffering without 
relief, the animal died, and the post-mortem revealed the pres¬ 
ence of peritonitis, with partial laceration of the intestines and 
a large number of calculi. One, very enormous, was found at 
a short distance from the end of the large colon ; as big as the 
head of a large-sized man, it weighed 5 kilograms (10 pounds), 
and measured 0.57 centimeters in diameter. Besides this, there 
were some 500 smaller calcareous masses, varying in size from 
that of a lentil to that of a five-franc piece (a silver dollar); a cer¬ 
tain number of metallic pieces, partly covered with calcareous 
deposits, amongst which were five nails, five pieces of wire. To 
complete this singularity of the return of the number five in 
the record of this case, it is amusing to remark that the patient 
died on the fifth of the month, that five days before his attack 
he had travelled a distance of forty-five kilometers and that pre¬ 
vious to his sickness he had eaten five or six litres of oats. 
As remarked by the clever editor of one of the French vet¬ 
erinary periodicals, for this poor horse thirteen was not the 
ill-omened number—his was five. 
However, with the large size of the principal stone, the case 
is certainly worthy of a place in the history of these affections 
by the enormous number of smaller calculi found, the fact that 
almost to the time of death the very large calculus had not 
interfered with the expulsions of faecal matters, and that 
notwithstanding its very large dimensions, which must have 
required a very long time to reach the point where it was, the 
horse had enjoyed comparatively good health, with only occa¬ 
sional attack of mild colic. 
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Ice Treatment in Pneumonia. —Shall I speak to the 
readers of the Review of this new(?) treatment, recommended 
by M. Brun in a paper that he read recently at the Societe 
