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superior fragments was kept in place by the internal, and the in¬ 
fer ior by the median patellar ligament. The bone being thus 
divided was, owing to the impossibility of moving it from the 
tibia, kept in place by the femoro-patellar capsula, and a sufficient 
amount of immobility secured to permit the formation of a cal¬ 
lus. 
Still, notwithstanding this favorable condition, the prog¬ 
nosis was rendered doubtful by apprehension of the possibility of 
arthritis. 
Tr eatment was, however, attempted. Continued irrigation 
was directed over the joint, and in eight days the animal began 
to rest his foot on the ground. Two weeks after he could be ex¬ 
ercised slowly ; in a month he was able to resume slow work, and 
but a slight lameness remained at the end of two months, which 
will probably disappear, as the absorption of the callus proceeds. 
—Archives Veterinaires. 
INTERMITTENT COLICS CAUSED BY AN EPIPLOCELE, WHICH 
BECAME IRREDUCIBLE AFTER CASTRATION—DEATH. 
By M. Bonnigal. 
A four-year-old colt was castrated by a gelder, in the stand¬ 
ing posture by. the process of uncovered testicle. The operation 
seemed so far successful that a week had elapsed after the recov¬ 
ery when the first colics appeared. At intervals during the fol¬ 
lowing five months, the attacks appeared, almost always occurring 
while at work, or after drinking, but never in so severe a form as 
to require treatment and readily subsiding. One evening, how¬ 
ever, thev became so severe that Mr. B. was called. When he saw 
the animal, the attack had continued abont five hours, and he was 
in such a condition that an unfavorable prognosis was at once 
announced. 
The animal was in dorsal decubitus ; the abdomen much tym- 
panized ; the skin covered with a cold sweat; respiration slow 
deep and labored; the animal remaining insensible to all excite¬ 
ment ; the pulse imperceptible, and the application of the finger 
to the eye failed te provoke the displacement of the membrana 
