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A pair of small parturition forceps was used, and being intro¬ 
duced into the incision in the bladder, and the hand of the opera¬ 
tor being put into the rectum, the calculus was grasped and after 
some little manipulation was drawn out. 
The bladder was then carefully washed out with tepid water 
and carbolic solution aud a low diet with mucilaginous drinks 
was prescribed, the incision to be washed two or three times daily. 
September 8 Wound looks well; a little clotted blood on the 
inside of urethra; the urine is voided from both the incision and 
the penis. A simple washing with carbolized water, with a little 
oil rubbed on the inside of the thighs to prevent irritation from 
the urine. There were no signs of reacting fever, the tempera- 
ature being only three-eighths of a degree above normal. 
September 9. No fever, very little discharge ; very little in¬ 
flammation of the parts. The same treatment was followed. The 
horse was now given his usual allowance of oats and hay, but the 
flaxseed tea was kept up. 
September 10. General condition the same, the wound gran¬ 
ulating nicely and from this date until the 16th, when he was 
sent home, the wound was kept clean, tiie edge slightly cauter¬ 
ized with nitrate of silver pencil and slight exercise given. 
On the 16th tiie horse was sent to his owner’s residence in 
Elizabeth, N. J., with directions simply to keep the wound clean. 
The animal might have been sent home some days sooner, but 
the owner preferred that he should stay until all danger from 
complications were past. 
Since he left the hospital nothing has been heard from the 
case, so that it is safe to say that the recovery is complete. 
The calculus on examination proved to be an ordinary mul¬ 
berry calculus, and weighed six drachms. 
COMMINUTED FRACTURE OF THE PELVIS. 
To answer a call left at the Hospital to attend a horse that 
had had a fall and was unable to get up, I went to a stable in 
West Eighteenth street, in New York, and found a bay mare with 
the following history: When the stableman went to back the 
