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mare is now under treatment. Many similar cases are on record. 
What is the lesson ? Any injury by blow or kick inflicted on the 
inner side of the tibia should be treated as a fracture, the animal 
placed in slings and a permanent bandage placed on the limb. This 
is the more to be insisted on from the great tendency of these frac¬ 
tures to become compound either through destruction of vitality 
of the skin injured by the kick or blow, or its laceration by sharp 
ends of bone. 
Pulmonary Hemorrhage. 
I saw lately a severe case of hemorrhage from the lungs in 
an aged horse, the animal losing nearly two pailfuls of blood in a 
very short time. Being satisfied that internal treatment would 
have no influence on vessels having the calibre to bleed so freely, 
I trusted to heart faintness for the arrest of the hemorrhage, which 
occurred as soon as the pulse began to falter. 
Melanosis in a two-year-old colt. 
During the past summer I removed a nodule of melanotic 
matter the size of a walnut from a two-year-old colt that I castra¬ 
ted, and the animal has since had another form in the neighborhood 
of the umbilicus. This is the youngest animal I ever knew to be 
thus afflicted. His color was a dirty grey. 
Castration Standing. 
JbTom the advance sheets of Prof. Liautard’s work on animal 
castration I learn that he disapproves of this procedure. 
There is only one advantage in the operation. It is a “ big free 
blow ” for the operator. It. is “ butchery ” not surgery ; it does 
not admit of the operation being performed “lege artis.” The 
operator cannot judge of the length he is cutting the cord or of 
the presence of adhesions, and, as Professor Liautard remarks, if 
the surgeon meets with an unsuspected hernia he is in a bad shape 
to deal with it. 
Protracted Pregnancy. 
A wealthy gentleman had in his possession for thirteen months 
a thoroughbred Kentucky mare, said to be in foal at the time of 
purchase. He insisted on her being pregnant, and at the end of 
