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tion through the anterior nares I discovered a foreign body in 
the nasal chamber. I passed a pair of dressing forceps np the 
nose, and withdrew a brushy, crab-apple twig about five or six 
inches in length. I then examined the other side and also 
found a foreign body, which proved to be a rag-weed six or 
eight inches in length. I removed it and washed the cavities 
out with creolin solution and put the patient on a tonic treat¬ 
ment for several days, and a thorough recovery was the result. 
I cannot account for the way those foreign bodies got there un¬ 
less it was done while butting and pushing each other backward 
as cows will sometimes do. 
“ SANDED.” 
By G. E. Griffin, D. V. S., Fifth Cavalry, U. S. Army, 
The above heading describes it exactly. An animal de¬ 
prived of salt, to satisfy his cravings licks the sand around his 
picket line (in the camps around Tampa, Florida). Large 
quantities of fine sand are thus ingested, producing irritation of 
intestinal tract, manifested by dullness of animal and sometimes 
colicy symptoms. A characteristic and in fact diagnostic symp¬ 
tom is the relaxed and expanded condition of the anus, with 
straining, accompanied by a small discharge of faeces, covered 
with mucus, or by small discharges of clear mucus. 
Treatment : Bran mash, plenty of salt, abundance of water, 
and an oleaginous laxative ; generally recovers in two days ; 
little danger of serious results, unless inflammation of intestine 
is established, when patient dies in extreme pain in from one 
to three da^^^s. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
HIS NIBS IN THE ARMY. 
Huntsville, Ala., Sept. i6, 1898. 
Editors A 77 ierica 7 i Veterinmy Review : 
“ Which it is not my style to produce needless pain. 
By statements that rile or that go ’gainst the grain ; ” 
But here's that old bugbear, the Army, 
With its vets standing out in the rain. 
Where to commence to give it to this subject in the liga- 
nientum nuchse and in a scientific manner with a stuffed club, 
without exhausting myself too much, and how to escape being 
jumped on, called a liar, a fool, and an idiot, and having the 
face of the earth wiped off with my remains, is what is agitat- 
