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stretching to the abdominal floor, measuring about i8 inches 
by 12 by 9, full of dry ingesta, resembling in character that 
found in the omasum of the ruminant. At the superior border 
of this was found the rupture, about six inches in length. 
There were some 20 or 30 pounds of food in the sac, a weight 
which was the immediate cause of the rupture.— {Vet. Record^ 
SciRRHUS Cord and Iodide of Potassium \JBy Mr. J. 
Walker^ M. R. C. V. S.]. —An eight-year-old cart horse after 
castration with actual cautery had become affected with scir- 
rhus cord of the near side. The cord was about the size of an 
average man’s thigh, with a fistulous wound. The animal ap¬ 
pearing in too weak condition to stand a surgical operation, 
iodide of potassium was resorted to and begun on April 25th. 
A bolus containing one and a half drachms of the iodide was 
given morning and evening, and the wound was also injected 
with a solution of biniodide of mercury and potass, iodide. Im¬ 
provement was noticeable on the third day. Recovery was 
complete on the 14th of May; wound healed ; complete disap¬ 
pearance of the cord ; most remarkable improvement in con¬ 
dition and spirits, as lively as a two-year-old.— {Vet. Record.) 
Rupture of the CEsophagus \By Mr. T. Charles Howat- 
soii\. —This case is that of an old cob which was supposed, by 
his owner to have glanders because he had a peculiar discharge 
from the nose. The author saw the patient and found that 
instead of suffering with glanders he presented the symptoms 
of affection of the oesophagus with possibly rupture, the lower 
part of the organ, near its entrance to the thorax being the seat 
of a soft swelling, with emphysema extending up the jugular 
groove. Notwithstanding treatment of fomentations applied 
on the oedema to try to subdue it, the swelling kept on increas¬ 
ing in all directions, extending over the whole body toward the 
last days of life. At that time, the pulse had risen to 80 per 
minute, the temperature was 106° and the breath very offensive. 
On the post-mortem it was found that the oesophagus was 
highly inflamed and ruptured longitudinally on each side (each 
rupture measured i ^ inches at the seat of the swelling). It is 
unfortunate that notwithstanding careful researches, no trau¬ 
matic cause of the ruptures could be found.— {Vet. Jour iiaV) 
VOMITION AND MESENTERIC Embouism \_By Mr. J. Cornio- 
chie.^ M. R. C. V. S.~\. —The clinical history of this three-year-old 
filly is brief. She was a moderate feeder, had somewhat capri¬ 
cious appetite, and at last is taken with abdominal symptoms 
and vomiting of a dirty, straw-colored, ill-smelling fluid, with 
