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givcly divided to a sufficient extent to allow the escape of the foetus. 
3d. This was done with the forceps, and was effected as 
carefully as possible, in order to avoid injury to the uterus. 
4th. The organ was sewed np, by a simple interrupted 
suture, carefully put on; all the ends of which were gathered 
together and brought outside of the cutaneous division. 
5th. A continued suture was employed to bring together the 
skin and muscles, and the wound was treated antiphlogistically. 
After referring to a number of unsuccessful cases on record, 
the author describes one case in which all these steps were care¬ 
fully followed, and which ended by recovery.— Ibid. 
GOURMY DIATHESIS—ABSCESS OF THE STOMACH. 
By Mr. Salorme. 
This is an unusual complication of distemper, not mentioned 
in veterinary literature. The animal subject of the report had 
died with pleuro-pneumonia and gangrene of the right lung. 
Death would at any rate have taken place without these complica¬ 
tions, on account of the trouble of the stomach, a condition which 
was discovered at the post mortem, when the organ was to be 
pulled out of the abdominal cavity. During life the animal had 
very large abscesses in the intermaxillary space; an abundant 
yellowish discharge from both nostrils; a few buttons of horse 
pox on the nose and internal face of the upper lip. The abscesses 
were opened with the actual cautery. Nothing important took 
place for a few days following after, except that the appetite had 
entirely disappeared. Notwithstanding the most active treat¬ 
ment, the animal died about four weeks after the first attack. 
Tiie abscess was about the size of an apple, and contained some 
white creamy pus of good character. It was situated in the mid¬ 
dle of the fleshy coat, and had an opening on the side of the 
mucous membrane. The inside of the stomach showed its sur¬ 
face in a healthy condition and covered on the left sac with a 
large mass of bots, some three hundred in number.— Ibid. 
