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left side of the chest had formed numerous adhesions. Owing to 
the want of an opportunity the blood was not microscopically 
examined. Altogether, thirty-nine animals have been lost. Fully 
alive to the gravity of the situation, Mr. Booth acquiesced in tho 
adoption of stringent measures for the extermination of the 
disease. All the diseasad animals were killed and either burned 
or deeply buried. The fat hogs were all butchered, and the 
twelve remaining pigs, apparently healthy, were turned into a 
field at a considerable distance from the infected yards. The old 
pens will be torn down and burned, and the manure, straw, etc., 
of the yards, will be carried to a distant field and also burned. 
No new pigs will be brought to the farm until next year, when a 
new yard and new pens will be built for their use. 
COMPLICATED PUNCTURED WOUND OF THE PELVIC CAVITY. 
By Wm. H. Pendry, D.V.S. 
On July 1st, I was called, near midnight, to see a small bay 
horse, about twelve years old, said to have had the rectum injured 
by backing on a shaft. When I arrived, I found the animal 
standing and having signs of considerable pain, but not to the 
extent that might be expected from a bad injury to that part. 
The history of the case was-, that about two hours before I was 
called, while the driver was in the act of unharnessing, the horse 
was startled by some fire crackers, and plunged about, trying to 
get away, resulting in the shaft entering the rectum. There had 
been considerable hemorrhage, but of a short duration. On 
examination, I found there was an external wound on the right 
side of anus, extending from without downwards, for about an 
inch, and about one and a half inches in length, forming a single 
sac. The examination per rectum proved more interesting, from 
a surgical point of view, though not for the owner. I found that 
the shaft had entered the rectum, and apparently done no harm 
till it had gone about five inches, when it had caught the mucous 
membrane of the near lateral wall, and lacerated it for four 
inches, just deep enough to lay the fore finger well in. The shaft 
