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excepting profuse sweating, until lie arrived home, when she all 
at once exhibited most alarming symptoms. We were sent for im¬ 
mediately. On our arrival the owner thought she would burst 
open before we could give her any medicine. We immediately 
gave a sub-cutaneous injection of atropine and strychnine in com¬ 
bination in the following quantities : Atropine sulphate, A of a 
grain, and strychnine citrate, J grain, and watched for an oppor¬ 
tunity to keep her up and quiet long enough to puncture with 
trocar. We soon attained the desired position, and accordingly 
sent a trocar into the bowel through the right iliac region. 
There was a free escape of gas, and great relief. Very soon 
after we noticed symptoms that caused us to suspect rupture of 
the diaphragm had taken place. Tremors would occasionally flit 
over her, respiration was embarrassed, pulse small, hard and fre¬ 
quent ; once or twice she was se^ed with what seemed to me 
spasms of the glottis, that threatened immediate death. But hav¬ 
ing once survived the immediate shock of the rupture, she lived 
for two days after and then died. Post mortem revealed ruptured 
diaphragm. 
EDITORIAL. 
VETERINARY SANITARY BUREAU. 
If our readers will refer to the January issue, first volume of 
the Review, they will there find able articles from Professors 
Law and MacEachran on the importance of establishing veterinary 
sanitary regulations over the entire American continent, and, as 
well, the necessity for calling the attention of our General Gov¬ 
ernment to the almost entire absence of laws relating to conta¬ 
gious diseases of animals. 
We have, by several articles published in these columns at va¬ 
rious times, endeavored to impress upon our Commissioner of 
Agriculture the danger besetting that branch of our commerce 
represented in the exportation of live stock, and the great impair¬ 
ment of wealth to which we are constantly exposed by the losses 
sustained among our domestic animals for want of proper regula¬ 
tions in veterinary sanitary matters. 
