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Miami canal. Probably the canal atmosphere was instrumental 
in modifying the severity of the cause in this disease. 
In other parts of the city numerous cases of the original char¬ 
acter have turned up, without much loss, except in the sale atables, 
where the death rate was quite out of proportion. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
REMOVAL OF TUMORS—RENAL FISTULA—NECROPSY—REMARKS. 
By C. C. McLean, V. S., of Meadville, Pa. 
June 17th, 1885, I was requested by a farmer to examine 
a grey gelding that he had traded for the previous week. I 
found a dark iron grey gelding, four years old, in good condition 
physically, except that he had a discharge of creamy pus from an 
opening about three-quarters of an inch in diameter from the left 
groin. His owner was unable to give me any information in re¬ 
gard to the animal’s previous history from the fact of his having 
been owned by a class of dealing horsemen. He was a capital 
horse for that class of men ; they would wash off the discharge 
and trade him to some unsuspecting customer who on entering his 
stable the following morning would be surprised to find the new 
tenant’s leg smeared with the pus on the inner side from groin to 
hock. There was nothing peculiar about his manner of progres¬ 
sion, except that he stepped a little shorter with the limb on left 
side, and no abnormal external appearance but slight atrophy of 
gluteals that would escape the attention of the casual observer. 
This was the first opportunity I had of seeing this horse, but from 
that time I was asked for opinion as to chance of recovery and 
expense of treatment, etc., by seven or eight different men, but 
none would consent to an operation till one E. Kuorr got pos¬ 
session of the unfortunate victim. Mr. Knorr was the first man 
that gave me a chance to make a thorough examination, at which 
time I found, after casting him and examining per rectum, using 
a catheter as a probe, that there was a sinus extending from 
behind the left kidney to the external opening in the groin, and 
that there was a large growth under the transverse process of 
