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used. The skin soon loosened, suppurating under the scar, 
separating huge patches of skin and baked muscle. Kept 
sprayed with Oakland peroxide followed by iodoform mixture. 
Wounds healed and horse was at work in about five weeks. 
Practically I had merely burns to treat. The shoulder scar 
was where he rested on the rail. Witnesses said that when his 
feet touched the rail, great sheets of flame shot from his shoes. 
He would shriek with pain and fall, stagger to his feet and re¬ 
peat the performance. Why he lived when there were two dead 
ones, killed by the same wire not a hundred yards awav, I never 
could tell. 
You will appreciate, then, as I do why there is no literature 
on the subject. It would come under burns. 
I would here say that I believe the peroxide was the medi¬ 
cine that made the successful treatment. I have known of 
horses continuing for months with “ burn ” sores, that I believe 
peroxide would clean up. 
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PATHOUOGY OF VOMITION. 
By Thos. B. Rogers, D. V. S., Woodbury, N. J. 
Perhaps a case of mine may help some one else, so I report 
Brown mare, had suffered with colickv symptoms for some 
hours. Temperature normal, pulse fast and full, absolute ab¬ 
sence of intestinal murmurs, pupils contracted, pain not severe, 
but constant. Treatment, eserine, aloes and venesection. Hater 
the patient vomited very freely, the oesophagus becoming dilated 
until it looked as big as one’s arm—the vomit running freely 
from both nostrils. Post-mortem showed the stomach to be in¬ 
tact and healthy, the cause of death being torsion of the small 
intestine about a yard from the pylorus. 
_ I report this case because I think it goes to show that vomit- 
ing points to the lesion being well forward, but not necessarily 
to a gastric lesion. 
EFFERVESCING URINE FROM A COW. 
By pRANCis Abele, Quincy, Mass. 
Was called to a cow, Jersey, dehorned, about 7 years old, 
due at an uncertain time in the near future to calve. Owner 
thought her laboring to calve. She had just three days pre¬ 
vious been floated in a boat some three or four miles, from an 
island at the outer extremity of Boston harbor. The weather 
was quite fair and the water smooth on the trip. 
