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the pelvis, and communicated with the rectum by a small fistu¬ 
lous tract, thereby explaining the discharge of pus per anus. 
These tumors did not, in all probabilivy, exist when the 
animal was operated on before, but subsequently, for the rectum 
at the time was carefully explored and nothing detected; also, 
the rapid improvement after the incisions healed points to this 
supposition. 
The fact of their subsequent formation can be readily under¬ 
stood : some cancerous germs were absorbed and deposited in the 
different places where these tumors were found. 
A CASE OF PARONYCHINA IN THE HORSE. 
Some time ago a very interesting case was discharged conva¬ 
lescent from the hospital of the American Veterinary College. 
The subject was a fine gray Norman gelding, 8 years old and 
15.2 hands high. 
The history of the case was that he had been worked the 
day previous, and had been placed in his stall at night apparently 
perfectly well; when seen in the morning he was standing up 
with his near fore-foot elevated from the ground and unable to 
move. He was brought to the hospital in an ambulance, and 
when the foot was examined, from the fetlock to the hoof it was 
greatly swollen, of a dark red appearance, very tender on the 
slightest pressure, and the animal unable to sustain any weight 
upon it. No wound of any description could be detected. 
The constitutional symptoms were very severe, the tempera¬ 
ture being 105 deg., the pulse strong, hard, and frequent, and 
the respiration accelerated, together with complete loss of appe¬ 
tite. The shoe was removed, and the animal placed with his fore 
feet in cold water. 
April 10th.—The next morning the general condition was 
about the same. The sole and frog were thinned away, as there 
was tenderness on pressure, and it was feared that there might 
be suppuration, resulting from a bruise of the foot, or from the 
application of a red-hot shoe. No pus was detected, the parts 
