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of the parts; as the bone was found pretty well united, it was thought 
that she could be allowed to go about without the bandage, her kind 
temper and affectionate disposition justifying to a certain extent the 
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measure. However, as soon as she was returned to her stall and let 
loose, she began to try to bite the cup in which her food was contained, 
and fearing she might injure herself, her jaws were secured again in 
the same way with lighter dressing. On the following day she was 
let loose in the hospital, she ran at a large grey hound and tried to bite 
him, he cowardly ran off, and the assistant house surgeon reported that 
she had ran at a Danish slut, and also at the cats. 
On the 3d she looses her appetite, on the 4th she gives through her 
closed mouth a peculiar howling, and when let loose she tries to bite 
cats and dogs, but is prevented by her bandage. Her temperature is 
103° F.; in the evening she begins to show signs of paralysis of the 
hind legs. 
On the 5th, 7 A. M., her temperature is 104;? F., her hind limbs 
paralyzed—died at 12 o’clock. 
This case shows the importance of thorough knowledge of the 
history of any patients. Had the incubative stage of the disease of 
this dog been as long as is in many cases of rabies, her fracture would 
have united, she would have gone home and God knows what terrible 
consequences might have taken place. 
{To be Continued .) 
INTUSUSSEPTION WITH OBSTINATE CONSTIPATION. 
By W. J. Coates, D. V. S., House Surgeon. 
On Sunday morning, April the 8th, a large black geld, 6 years 
old, belonging to Messrs. Rafferty & Williams, was brought to the 
American Veterinary College Hospital suffering with colicky pains. 
He was taken with colics on Saturday evening, and they continued 
since; he would paw, get down very easy, roll on his back and stay in 
that position for four or five minutes at a time and then lie on his side 
for a while, get up again and so on the whole night, urinated freely 
but passed no feces; he did his usual work on Saturday and eat no 
feed that evening. The stable-man gave him one half pound of epsom 
salts and one oz. ,sweet spirits nitre, but did not relieve him. 
