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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
A CASE OF INTESTINAL GASEOUS INDIGESTION, REQUIRING 
THREE PJJNCTURE8 OF THE INTESTINES. 
By Mr. Baudon. 
A stallion attacked with colic, at first slightly and then 
severely, was temporarily relieved by a single puncture of the 
intestines. The improvement was but transient, the flatulency 
returning after a short interval, when a second puncture was 
pen-formed at a point from two to three inches from the 
first. This also was without satisfactory results, the animal 
lying down immediately on the right side, displacing the cannla 
and preventing the escape of the intestinal gas. The horse grow¬ 
ing rapidly worse, and his life being in danger, he was tapped 
the third time at about three inches from the points previously 
punctured. This time the operation proved successful. The 
animal was immediately relieved, and half an hour afterwards 
seemed to have entirely recovered. 
In order to prevent the inflammation of the intestines, likely 
to follow these operations, a large sinapism was applied under the 
abdomen, and a blister rubbed in the hollow of the flank. 
Everything progressed favorably until the sixth day, when an 
abscess formed on the flank. This was opened on the ninth day, 
allowing the escape of a large quantity of pus. The skin and 
muscles of the region were so extensively undermined by the pus 
that a free counter-opening was necessary to allow the treatment 
of the abscess. Notwithstanding this, the recovery was slow, 
until an asbeess showed itself on the right side of the scrotal re¬ 
gion, which, on being freely opened, discharged about a pint of 
pus. From this time the animal began to improve, and in a 
week had entirely recovered .—Journal de Zootechnie. 
A CURIOUS CASE OF LATERAL PRESENTATION IN A COW. 
Transversal position of the calf; trging to go through the neck of the uterus by the 
right side of the chest; two curvatures of the vertebral column from right to 
left—one anterior , the other posterior. 
By Mr. Robois. 
History .—A robust, healthy cow, the mother of three calves, 
had been in pain since morning. Her present pregnancy had 
