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account of its size, I hesitated to operate on her; but the owner 
being willing to assume the risk, I proceeded as follows: 
The animal being in a standing position, with one leg strapped 
up, I first drew the urine with the catheter, and having well oiled 
my hand, introduced it in the vaginal canal and applied fluid ex¬ 
tract of belladonna upon the urethra. With the left hand I passed 
the lithotomy forceps into the bladder, and while there I gently 
guided the stone toward it. When firm hold upon the calculus 
had been obtained I withdrew the forceps with a rotary move¬ 
ment, and after a little while removed it. The bladder was 
washed with warm water and soap, and a drink of fluid extract 
barosma crenata and spirit, ether, nit. aa. § ss., in a pint of warm 
water, administered. 
The mare has done well ever since, and is hauling flour 18 
miles every day. 
EDITORIAL. 
INFLUENZA. 
Another outbreak of this disease has made its appearance, and 
reports come to us from many points of the country as to its ex¬ 
istence and various modes of manifestation. In the west, where 
it started, a number of deaths are chronicled, and horse-car travel 
is affected. In the eastern States the disease is not in such a 
virulent form, nor are the cases so numerous; and, despite the 
efforts of a few whose improper reports and newspaper interviews 
have tended to frighten the public and owners of horses, the pros¬ 
pects are that it will prove far less troublesome than the epizootic 
of last year, and nothing in comparison with that of 1872. 
Many and various opinions are expressed through the daily and 
agricultural press as to the cause, form and treatment of the dis¬ 
ease. As to the first, we regret to say that any positive knowl¬ 
edge is not had at present, its etiology not being yet very well 
understood. The form most prevalent is the oedematous or, in 
some few instances, the rheumatoid. 
