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Fearing peritonitis, or traumatic gangrene, an unfavorable prog¬ 
nosis was made, and treatment of aloetic carbolized water by 
injections was prescribed, with light feeding. 
The next day the swelling had increased and the animal was 
dull and almost without appetite. Abundant bloody discharges 
from the wound occurred at each movement of the animal, and 
there was great stiffness in walking. Same treatment. At the 
following visit the animal seemed improved. The stitches of the 
wound being cut, allowed an inspection which shewed that the 
shaft had penetrated to a depth of 17 centimeters. The wound 
extended from the front of the pelvis towards the opposite side. 
The skin was loose downwards to the stifle joint. A counter 
opening was made at this point, and the same treatment con¬ 
tinued. By degrees the bad smell of the wound disappeared, 
and the condition of the patient slowly improved. 
Some two weeks after the injury a mass of muscular fibres, 
weighing 260 grammes, was cut off, and some days later a small 
piece of the point of the ilium sloughed away. After forty- 
seven days of treatment, the wound was entirely healed and the 
animal was able to resume his work .—Recueil de Medecine Veter. 
RENAL CALCULI IN A BITCH. 
By M. P. Megnin. 
This is the report of a post mortem made on a bitch in which 
calculi were found in the pelvis of the kidneys. They were 
larger than the natural size of the pelvis, which was in conse¬ 
quence much distended, the medullary portion of the organ being 
destroyed, the cervical portion being almost all that remained 
of the organ. One of the calculi, that of the right kidney, 
weighed 7 gramms, and measured 28 millimeters in length, 21 
in width, and 15 in thickness. It was roughly pyramidal, w r ith 
faces and angles irregularly rounded, and having at its apex a 
small projection corresponding to the liilus of the kidney. 
The other calculus weighed 6 gramms, and had a crescent 
shape W'itii extremities blunt and rounded. It had also a little 
