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animal was taken home, but was returned again in a conple of 
hours, again bleeding. On examination it was found that the 
blood was coming from the laceration, and also oozing from the 
edges of the lips, floor and roof of mouth, end of nose, and from 
several places on external surface of lips and cheeks. No cause 
was apparent for any, save the one laceration. 
This general capillary haemorrhage was treated with cold, 
tincture iron, pulv. iron, tannic acid, alum, flour and the actual 
cautery. 
After trying the above agents for a few hours and not being 
able to arrest the flow of blood, I was at the end of my resources. 
The animal had grown rapidly weaker ; too weak in fact to be 
accounted for by the loss of blood from the mouth. Legs and 
ears were cold, and animal hardly able to stand alone. 
Upon taking temperature per rectum, it was found to be 
99.1° F., and the thermometer was covered with blood. This 
indicated internal hsemorrhage, and I at once gave a dose of 
acetate lead, tinct. opii and tinct. ergot. In about thirty seconds 
animal vomited about four ounces of blood. I tried several 
times to give internal styptics, but vomition was invariably the 
result. The animal lingered for several hours and then died. 
Post-mortem revealed a large aneurism of the mesenteric 
artery, and an inflamed condition of about three feet of small 
intestines, from which there had evidently been hsemorrhage. 
The entire intestinal tract was almost free from ingesta and 
filled with blood. This accounted for death, but did not explain 
the capillary hsemorrhage of the mouth and lips, or why it could 
not be arrested. 
A SUBLINGUAL TUMOR. 
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By Francis Abele, V. S , Quincy, Mass. 
In my dog practice, the commonest call is to come right away 
to see a dog that has been poisoned. , The real fact, however, I 
seldom see. The usual fact is either some bowel disorder, often- 
est constipation, or else some form of distemper coming on, 
most commonly the congestive chill. 
One of these “ poisoned dogs ” had been threatened with 
death by a neighbor for trespassing, so when the beast came 
home with his mouth open, drilling, and his tongue too big for 
his month, of course poisoning for revenge was suspected. 
Found under the tongue, or at the frsenum, a glairy, smoothly 
spherical tumor, continuous with the tongue, about its base. 
Diagnosed inflammation of submaxillary glands due to a blow. 
