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a revulsive was applied on the coxo-femoral joint. Eight days 
afterward the animal presented the same condition and lameness. 
He was kept to work. 
Five months afterward the swelling of the croup had almost 
disappeared. In the upper part of the flank, near the angle of 
the ilium, an enlargement existed, painless and not fluctuating. 
Rectal examination revealed a tumor about the size of a man’s 
head, oblong and slightly fluctuating, on the internal side. Ex¬ 
ploiting puncture with the aspirator was made, from which 
escaped a yellowish transparent fluid. A larger trocar being in¬ 
troduced, allowed the exit of a small membrane, very delicate. 
Eight days afterward a yellowish-white pus escaped from the 
opening. 
There were then general serious symptoms: great dullness, 
general prostration, poor appetite, pulse small and thready, res¬ 
piration regular, but short and accelerated, temperature 41°3. 
What was supposed to be an abcess—the tumor—was opened 
with pointed cauterization. With the pus which oozed out sev¬ 
eral little bladders escaped, consisting of a thin, gelatinous mem¬ 
brane, with a transparent, citrine colored fluid, and having in 
suspension some yellowish-white bodies. The membrane was 
sometimes colorless, of a dirty white, and again a rosy or deep 
red color. The liquid remained in all of the same aspect. About 
thirty of these bladders were removed at this first operation. 
Treatment consisted of carbolic water dressing. 
Two weeks later the animal looked well. Fever had subsided, 
the tumor had reduced on the outside, as well as on the inside, 
and numerous vesicles had been discharged. Lameness disap¬ 
peared on walking. Same treatment. 
A week after, the wound of the cautery was closing, expul¬ 
sion of the vesicles difficult, and the pus had become offensive. 
A few days later general symptoms reappeared, and on account 
of weakness and debility of the patient, and the unfavorable as¬ 
pect of the case, the horse was destroyed. 
At the autopsy a voluminous tumor, extending from the left 
kidney to the superior border of the ilium, was found. It was 
bosselated, oblong, situated in the sub-lumbar region, in the psoas 
