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the vesicular murmur, and some dry crepitant and sibilant rales, dis¬ 
seminated over the whole extent of the lungs; percussion showed 
dullness in the lower third of both sides. A diagnosis of tuber¬ 
culosis was made. 
The examination of numerous preparations of expectorated 
mucosities revealed a great number of micro-organisms of various 
forms and sizes—bacilli, micrococci, isolated, germinated, in rods, 
or in zooglia, but not one of them had the reaction of the bacillus 
of Koch; all became discolored when dipped in nitric acid ; all 
took the coloration, blue, violet, maroon, green, etc., put on the 
glass. No results could be obtained from many examinations. 
The autopsy proved the error of the diagnosis, and the truth of 
Koch’s method. There was no trace of tuberculosis, but on the 
anterior median line appeared an enormous purulent pouch, sur¬ 
rounding the pneumo-gastric, having flattened the trachae, pushed 
the heart backwards in atrophying the right ventricle. Neither 
the pus of the abcess, nor the bronchial mucosities, contained any 
of the bacilli of Koch.— Archives Yeterinaires. 
CASES FROM A NOTE BOOK, 
By T. B. Rogers, D.V.S. 
Injuries to the Lower Third of the Tibial Region and 
their Lesson . 
In the summer of 1880 I was called to attend a horse suffer¬ 
ing from fracture of the lower third of the tibia, arising, the owner 
said, from no apparent cause. The horse got a “little kick” over 
the seat of the injury two days prior to the leg breaking, and while 
being led out to water the displacement occurred. Of course the leg 
was fractured wholly or partially by the kick, displacement occur¬ 
ring afterward through muscular contraction, Decently 1 was 
called to see a valuable five-year-old mare, lame from a kick in 
the same region, and made a diagnosis of fracture without dis¬ 
placement ; the owner, doubting the correctness of my opinion, 
allowed the animal to run at large in the meadow. Displacement 
occurred on the twelfth day after reception of the injury and the 
