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the animal the handle of the fork, turned upwards and back¬ 
wards, penetrated the perineum, somewhat to the right, in the 
subcutaneous connective tissue, between the skin and the inser¬ 
tion of the gracilis muscle, and made its exit below the anus. It thus 
formed a fistulous tract with two openings and a median portion. 
The superior opening was oval in shape, with its antero-posterior 
axis quite well defined, and situated immediately below the 
sheath. The superior opening, situated below the anus, was nar¬ 
row in its middle, and turned downwards and inward. Its edges 
were ragged. The middle portion was straight. The parts were 
swollen, inflamed, infiltrated, and emphysematous with a bloody, 
foaming discharge issuing from the lower opening. Locomotion 
was difficult and painful. Symptoms of general disturbance were 
mild, the appetite good, pulse slightly increased, and temperature 
almost normal. Treatment was by injections of phenicated 
solutions, continued irrigations of the parts, and subsequently 
dressings of tincture of aloes and Villate’s solution. Recovery 
took place in twenty days .—Archives Veterinaires. 
FRACTURE OF PATELLA IN THE HORSE. 
By Me. Andkiew. 
A light grey gelding, twelve years old, received from another 
horse a kick in the left stifle region. At first sight the leg seemed 
paralyzed, the animal being unable to rest his foot upon the ground, 
and the movements of flexion and extension appearing to be im 
possible. Exactly on a level with the middle of the patella ap- 
appeared a wound through which the finger could be readily in¬ 
troduced, and through which escaped a serous, bloody liquid 
mixed with synovia. Introducing the finger into the wound, a 
fracture of the patella could be felt, the bone being shattered 
into three pieces, making spherical segments of about an equal 
size by a division which starting from the superior border, runs 
down to the center of the bone and then divides in two, one 
reaching to the outer and the other to the inner border, constitut¬ 
ing an important condition, by which ultimate recovery becomes 
reduced to little more than a possibility, inasmuch as one of the 
