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and when for some reason or another he did not feel like work¬ 
ing, he would show lameness suddenly. Sometimes it was in 
starting from the stable, sometimes while on the road. The 
doctor told ns many times how he cured (?) the lameness—a 
good snap of the whip.— [Edit.] 
Fracture of the Scapuea (d/r. R. C. Cochrane ).—The 
principal interest of the case is that after receiving the injury 
the animal was able to walk a distance of two miles showing 
comparatively but very little lameness. Being put under treat¬ 
ment, however, the lameness gradually increased to such an ex¬ 
tent that the animal had to be destro3/ed. . At the post-mortem, 
besides the alterations of the muscles of the shoulder and princi¬ 
pally of the antea and postea spinatis, the scapula and humerus 
were found diseased. The articular surface of both were found 
to be to a great extent devoid of cartilage and the inner side of 
the articular surface of the scapula had been fractured. There 
was also great bony deposits all around the articulation.— (Vet¬ 
erinary Record.) 
A Biliary Calculus. —Though obtained from an ordinary¬ 
sized animal, the specimen found by Mr. J. J. Crowhurst is 
rare and unusually large. It is a calculus found in the gall¬ 
bladder of a half-bred Yorkshire and Tamworth sow, whose 
carcass weighed 29 scores and from which a liver weighing 
7 lbs. 2 oz. was extracted. The calculus was pear-shaped and 
on section measured 4 inches in width and 3 in height — it 
filled the distended bladder almost entirely, as this contained 
only about a teaspoonful of gall-bile .—(Vetermaiy Record.) 
Strychnia Poisoning. —Mr. Howe records the reviving 
of a four-year-old fox terrier which had shown evidences of 
strychnia poisoning by repeated attacks of characteristic fits. 
The suspicion of poisoning was established by the reports that 
poison for mice had been laid about and that the dog was very 
fond of catching them. After a convulsion he received six 
grains of chloral in solution, followed in one hour by another 
dose, w^hich was repeated three hours after. A fourth dose was 
given the next day to relieve a certain amount of muscular 
stiffness. 
ITALIAN REVIEW. 
Radical Cure of Umbilical Hernia in Colt \^By 
Vachetta '\.—The author operated upon two colts, from eight to 
twelve months old. suffering from umbilical hernias, too ex- 
