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A. A. HOLCOMBE. 
by such communication, and as the subject of education seems to be en¬ 
tirely ignored, we will announce, that Prof. Smith’s letter is the last one of 
that character which will be published in the Review. In printing it 
we feel obliged to say, to the Principal of the Toronto School, that we 
have taken the liberty to remove or alter a few expressions which we did 
not think ought to find place in our columns. 
From the Veterinary Jour?ial , of December, we extract a letter 
from “Rebus,” to the Editor, and a little notice concerning Veterinary 
College in Ireland. These will prove interesting to the people of this 
country, and put them on guard against the number of pretenders which 
are assuming titles to which they have no legal claim. 
REPORT OF CASES. 
DEATH FROM TRAUMATIC PERFORATION OF THE RECTUM. 
By A. A. Holcombe, D. V. S., New York. 
On Sunday evening, November 4th, an eight year old brown geld¬ 
ing, belonging to Messrs. Jones & Lynch of this city, came in from a 
drive with flatulent colic. The usual domestic remedies, among others 
warm-water enemas, thrown up with a long-nozzled syringe, were 
administered, and the patient was relieved. On the 5th, he seemed a 
little dejected and off his feed, while the pulse was quite weak; but I 
attributed these symptoms to the large doses of tr. aconite root which 
he had received, and prognosticated a good recovery, providing the 
flatulency did not return. Toward evening he seemed quite bright, and 
had two moderately loose passages from the bowels. On Tuesday, his 
appetite was good and he seemed almost as well as usual. On Wednes¬ 
day evening, a slight swelling was noted around the anus, and an 
inclination upon the part of the patient to rub the parts* against the 
sides of the box ; during the night he was somewhat uneasy. 
On Thursday morning I was called to the case and found the 
patient very uneasy ; the mucous membranes injected ; pulse rapid, 
somewhat full and hard; respirations hurried; temperature 104^° F.; 
considerable swelling around the anus; and the depression usually 
seen in front of the external angle of th'e ileum completely obliterated, 
by what, at first glance, would be taken for tympanites. Percussion 
