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anxiety, sudden lameness of one leg, until, the animal continuing 
to walk, becomes unable to stand, and falls to the ground. The 
urine is often red or blackish. 
3d. The paralytic form, with the above symptoms, succeeded 
by complete loss of motion; urine generally normal. 
The first condition subsides easily with a slight bleeding and 
saline purgatives. 
The second requires, before anything else, absolute immobility, 
with warm applications over the loins, but no counter-irritants. 
Blisters are too slow in their action, and mercurial preparations 
useless. Strychnine and its compounds are contra-indicated. 
Drastics are doubtful in their results. 
The third demands revulsive applications, the stronger the 
better, as frictions of oil of turpentine, with the treatment of the 
second form.— Ibid. 
OVARIAN CYST IN A MARE—COMPRESSION AND OBSTRUCTION 
OF THE FLOATING COLON—DEATH. 
By M. Maeohabl. 
April 25th, a five-year-old mare was taken with colic ; appe¬ 
tite diminished; respiration accelerated; nostrils dilated; pulse 
hard and small; mucous membranes slightly injected; flank ir¬ 
regular and hard on the right side; constipation. 
Treated for stercoral colic by purgative; rectal injections, 
sulphate of eserine and croton oil. She died on the 29th, four 
days after the attack. 
Post-mortem .—The abdominal cavity exhibited, at the extrem¬ 
ity of the right horn of the uterus, suspended to the round liga¬ 
ment, a soft, elastic tumor, elliptical in shape, and presenting on 
its inferior face a dark spot, produced by contact with the abdom¬ 
inal wall. The tumor being opened, was found to contain 11 
litres of serous liquid, dark yellow in color, enclosed in a single 
pouch, covered at its surface with numerous blood-vessels. It 
weighed 12 kil., 500 grammes (about 13 pounds), and was simply 
the ovary. It pressed heavily on the floating colon, and caused 
the closure of that organ.— Ibid. 
