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place, I removed the bandage, and on examination found that the 
healing process had made considerable progress, and again dressed 
the leg with plaster-of-paris. The patient had now begun to bear 
a little weight upon the injured leg. 
On October 12th I removed the dressing, had the animal 
backed out of the stall, and walked up and down, locomotion 
being apparently perfect, but as a precautionary measure, she was 
kept in slings for another week, when she was put to daily exer¬ 
cise, the only indication remaining of the severe injury she had 
received being a slight thickening of the fetlock. 
Wm. G. Schmidt, D.V.S. 
Newark, N. J. 
ENDOCARDITIS AND RUPTURED STOMACH. 
By Theo. S. Very. 
A bay horse 18 years old had been driven carefully about nine 
miles, and was properly cared for and put in his stall about 12 
o’clock noon. Shortly afterward he was noticed to be uneasy, the 
owner was notified, and I was sent for. He had been ailing about 
two hours when I arrived at the stable, and the stable keeper had 
given him a dose of gin and ginger and hot water. I was told he 
had laid down and got up several times, had urinated freely once 
or twice and passed considerable manure, but had not been down 
for an hour. The symptoms presented were peculiar, and as nearly 
as I can describe them as follows : 
Three o'clock .—He stood in a wide stall, was covered with two 
long blankets, his head was quite erect, and his respiration, which 
could be heard quite a distance off owing to the vibration of his 
nostrils during expiration, was just 100 a minute. He was wet 
from his head to his feet with perspiration ; his legs were uncom¬ 
monly cold even above the knees and hocks; his pulse was quite 
indistinct and irregular; the oblique abdominal muscles were 
tense, but the illiac spaces were not distended, and he showed no 
tympanitis during his sickness. The visible membranes were of a 
natural color. While I was making the examination he got into 
