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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
VOLUMINOUS URETHRAL CALCULUS IN A COLT. PERINEAL 
URETHROTOMY BY REPULSION OF THE STONE. RECOVERY. 
By M. A. Vandermies. 
The subject of the case was a stallion, two years old. His 
symptoms were as follows: general condition good, incontinence 
of urine, which is clear, limpid, normal in appearance, running 
out by drops, especially when the animal is in motion ; at times 
efforts to micturate, often useless, at times followed by a strong 
stream of urine; ulcerated wound at the free border of the 
sheath; diagnosis is made of paralysis of the bladder. A year 
later same symptoms, but somewhat modified, urine is cloudy and 
sedimentous, ulceration of the sheath is enlarged, penis seems 
atrophied; gravel or stone in the bladder is diagnosticated. 
Later on, the wound of the sheath has closed under treatment. 
On the 28th of March, 1881, the animal is unable to pass water; 
he lies down and gets up continually, assumes the dog-sitting 
position, and when standing is perched against the wall with his 
hind quarters. This last, says the author, is a position always in¬ 
dicating an obstacle or an alteration of the posterior part of the 
intestinal canal, of the urethra or of the bladder. Rectal exam¬ 
ination reveals in the floor of the pelvis, in the urethra, near the pos¬ 
terior border of the ischium, a hard tumor. It is a large calculus 
lodged in the urethral sinus. The left hand introduced in the rec¬ 
tum, the stone was pushed well back to bring it to the surface as 
much as possible. An incision was then made directly upon it 
and the calculus enucleated, so to speak, at once. It measured 9 
centimeters in length, 5 in width, and weighed 180 grammes.— 
Annates de Brussels. 
RABIES IN A MARE. FRACTURE OF THE JAW. 
By M. Palat. 
Aged eight years, is admitted to the hospital for punctured 
wound of the foot. 24 hours after she tries to bite and kick the 
