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REPORT OF CASES. 
dog fashion, for five or six minutes. Get up and walk around the stall. 
Then stand in a corner, and seemed to have a continual dull pain. 
Twice he had eructation of gas. I diagnosticated either ruptured 
diaphragm or stomach, and prognosticated death. He was admin¬ 
istered opiates every half hour, till he expired, at 4:30, a. m. 
Post-mortem.—Abdominal cavity filled with bloody serum, mixed 
with partly digested food. The portion of the intestines that were 
lying on the inferior wall of the abdomen were highly congested, and 
showing all the characteristic lesions of acute peritonitis. Removal of 
the intestines showed a rupture of the great curvature of the stomach 
near the pyloric orifice. On removing the food from the stomach, and 
liquid from abdominal cavity, six or seven ascaris lumbricoides were 
found, the largest measuring fifteen inches in length, and about three- 
eighths of an inch in diameter. 
LACERATION OF TENDON OF FLEXOR METATARSI. 
By the Same. 
Description.—Black gelding, six years of age; belonging to a Dr. 
Hall, of this city. 
History.—Found this morning, June 18, 1877, with his off hind leg 
hanging over the partition between his and next stable, with a lacerated 
wound in the front of the hock, and then sent to the hospital in the 
ambulance. 
On admission, June 18, 1877, a transverse wound, about two inches 
in length, in the anterior tibial region, about four inches above the 
hock, with an inch of the tendon of the flexor metatarsi protruding. 
When made to walk he could not flex the hock, and would drag the 
foot along the ground. 
Treatment.— Put in slings; leg bandaged; irrigation of cold water, 
day and night. 
June 19.— Ligated the protruded tendon with elastic ligature; 
bandaged and irrigation. 
June 22.—Piece of tendon sloughed off; moderate pressure with 
bandage and irrigation. 
June 23.—About a quarter of an inch of tendon protruding, on 
account of the way he rested the leg. It was excised, and then cauter¬ 
ized with the actual cautery. Same treatment. It began to heal 
nicely; and on July 26, left off bandage, and cauterized the wound 
with saturated solution of chi. zinc, twice a day. He was exercised ten 
