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ally ruptured—the lower part of the leg below the joint was 
hanging loose and attached to these gment above by the flexor 
tendon and the skin. The fetlock joints were open on their 
whole extent except on the posterior face. The lower extrem¬ 
ity of the principal metatarsal bones was protruding; the skin, 
extensor tendons, lateral sesamoid ligaments, as well as the an¬ 
terior and lateral metatarso-phalangeals. were torn. Alone the 
suspensory ligament and the flexor tendons close and hold to¬ 
gether the joint behind. Profuse haemorrhage had taken place 
by tearing of the arteries and collateral veins.— (Rec, de Med. 
Vet .) 
Successful Reduction oe an Eventuation in a Horse 
\_By M. E. Bollet \.—One more success in abdominal surgery is 
recorded by the author with the help of antisepsis. A gelding, 
after a fall on a plow, had a wound on the right side of the ab¬ 
domen, some io centimetres from the linea alba, and 25 from 
the xyphoid appendix of the sternum ; through this wound about 
0.60 centimetres of the small intestine were protruding. The 
animal was thrown and placed in the dorsal position. The in¬ 
testines were washed with boric solution (40 gramms for 1 litre 
of water), and afterwards with sublimate (1:1000). The wound 
had to be enlarged to allow of the reduction. The parts were 
sewed with interrupted sutures with a coat of iodoform thrown 
between and over the edges of the wound. The after treat¬ 
ment consisted in washing with cresyled water (30:1000), sub¬ 
limate solution twice a day, and dusting with iodoform ; and 
careful diet; after ten days the sutures had fallen off, the 
wound was rosy, without suppuration, and no hernia returned. 
— [Rec. de Med. J/et.) 
ENGLISH REVIEW. 
A Canine Abdominal Cryptorchid [By Prof. Hobday ]. 
—If it is not uncommon to meet with dogs and cats having- 
only one descended testicle, cases are not so frequent where both 
organs are retained in the abdomen. An Irish terrier to be cured 
of its wandering propensities, was brought to the author to be 
castrated. He was laid on the operating table and placed under 
chloroform, but searching for the testicles, failed to discover or 
feel them, before or after the scrotum was opened. The wound 
was sutured and covered with antiseptic iodoform dressing. A 
few days after laparotomy was performed on the median line 
about half an inch in front of the opening of the prepuce. 
