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its head down , that something looking like pus ran from her 
month. About twelve o’clock that day, when we arrived at the 
farm, we found the animal dead. 
Post mortem was made at once. I found all the abdominal 
oigans but the liver healthy. In the liver there was quite a large 
abscess that contained about four ounces of pus of a’verv foetid 
odor. 
On opening the thorocic cavity I found the right lung con¬ 
gested and two abscesses in it, holding about eight ounces of pus; 
the heart was enlarged to a considerable extent. I found a 
round cord-like growth coming along the tract of the posterior 
aoita. On cutting into it I found it contained pus. On re¬ 
moving the heart I found a piece of wire, such as is used on hay, 
three and a half inches long, had worked itself through the right 
am icle of the heart and pinning, as it were, the auriculo-ventricular 
valve in its course downward so it could not work. As it was 
nearly dark and the postmortem was made in the woods and in a 
hurry, it was not as thorough as I would like to have had it. 
FRAC L'URE OF THE OS SUFFRAGINIS. 
By tiie Same. 
April lb, 1878, called to see a gelding which had slipped 
fjom the curbingof the sidewalk to the pavement and fell on its 
off side. In getting up it struggled considerably, and when it got 
ou its feet was unable to put its off fore foot to the ground. This 
is the history I got on my way to the stable. 
On arriving there I found the animal standing on three legs, 
the fourth one swinging every time the animal moved. 
Diagnosed the case. Compound fracture of the os suffraginis, 
and advised the animal to be destroyed, which was donef 
lost m 01 tem of the leg found the first and second pastern 
bones involved in the fracture, the first pastern bone broken into 
twenty-eight pieces. The os corona had the internal angle of tl*e 
superior articular surface broken off, 
