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legs at the pasterns and with some ossified enlargements near the 
suspensory ligament. The operation was done with deep fine 
needles, and the animal properly secured to prevent her from 
biting. The second night, however, the mare got loose, and 
tore the skin of the right leg from the knee down to the coro¬ 
nary band, on the outside of the leg. The case was very serious 
but by careful dressing of sublimate solution with iodoform 
gauze and a slightly compressive bandage, she began to improve 
steadily, when on the seventh day the owner took her out the 
result of which was that the dressing got loose, and a fistulous 
tract, oozing synovia, was formed. Careful treatment crave 
some improvement, but the synovial discharge kept up and be¬ 
came suppurative, when more severe treatment was decided 
upon. The mare was thrown and secured, and the fistula freely 
opened upwards and downwards. The external sesamoid was 
found partly bare of periosteum, and also the lower part of the 
principal and external rudimentary metacarpal bones. The 
superior extremity of the os suffraginis was healthy. The sesa¬ 
moid and uncovered portion of the metacarpal were scraped 
and the cavity thoroughly disinfected with sublimate solution’ 
then filled with aseptic iodoform and the leg wrapped with 
aseptic wadding. The dressing was renewed every three or 
four days, until the wound began to look better, when the treat¬ 
ment consisted only in injections of tincture of iodine. After 
fifty days the mare was cured and after seven months is doino- 
her work well. All that remains of the trouble is a certain 
stiffness of the fetlock. There is but little blemish left, except 
a very small swelling on the joint .—(Clinica Veterin.) 
Retention of the Peacenta in a Cow—Extraction 
PER Rectum . \_By R.owiolo Movselli ].—The author noticed, in a 
five-year-old cow, a few days after parturition, which seemed to 
have been normal,, and according to the owner had been well 
delivered, the ordinary symptoms of acute metritis. Vaginal 
exploration showed the os closed, scarcely allowing the entrance 
of the finger; the temperature was 40.5 0 C., the general aspect 
sickly, milk secretion stopped. There was a slight vaginal dis¬ 
charge. As the cow had had prolapsus of the uterus before, and 
as the owner had often reduced it himself, the veterinarian 
thought that perhaps similar manipulations had been resorted to 
and some traumatism produced. Cold compresses were applied 
co the loins, and a few doses of salicine and camphor in wine and 
tonics prescribed, with washings of the uterus with boric water, 
kittle by little the animal improved, and yet the uterine dis- 
