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the vermiform appendix, and removed ; unfortunately, rupture of the 
bladder had already taken place. This specimen I also presented to 
the Ontario College. 
TYMPANITIS TREATED BY PUNCTURE. 
By C. H. Peabody, D. V. S. 
The three cases reported below were quite interesting to me, and 
hoping they may be so to some of the readers of the Review, I beg 
to report them. 
Case No. 1. 
On the 18th of July last, at about 2.30, p.m., I was called to see a 
sorrel mare which had been suffering from flatulent colics since 8 
o’clock that a. m. 
On inquiry found the animal had received two (2) drenches which 
were composed of red pepper, gin, laudanum, ether, aloes, saleratus, and 
turpentine, which had been given warm and, as the animal would not 
swallow it, had been administered by pouring it through the nose. 
When I saw the animal she was standing with head extended, nos¬ 
trils dilated, respiration quick, and was distended at the flanks, as full 
and hard as it could be; the anus was protruding. I concluded to 
puncture at once. Choosing the right flank about half way between the 
external angle of the ilium and last rib, and about one and a half inch 
below the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae, plunging the 
trocar and canula through in an oblique direction inward and down¬ 
ward. I withdrew the trocar, allowing the gas to escape for about three 
or four minutes, and then it stopped. 
I then removed the canula, the animal seemed to be easier; still, 
she soon laid down again, rolled on to her side, and in a few minutes 
death closed the scene. 
Case No. 2. 
September 10, 4.30 a. m. —Was called to see a bay mare, 6 years 
old. Found out, on my way to the stable, that the animal had been 
sick all night, and treated by a blacksmith. 
I found her in about the same condition aS'No. 1. She had 
received three drenches of laudanum and ether with linseed oil, and 
half a pound of the sulphate of soda, besides a dozen or more injections 
of soap and water. 
Without giving any internal medicine, I at once punctured (as in 
Case No. 1). The gas escaped for nearly four minutes. She became 
