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Fracture of the os Suffraginis in a Racehorse
The Veterinary :1 ournat. organ was kept in position for half an hour by the arm and fist of an attendant and then was douched with cold water. I returned at 5 p.m. and found the mare much excited by morphia; no pains, and womb in position. Next day, 10 a.m., patient dull, no pains, temperature 1040 F. I douched the womb with warm water and lysol, and gave hypodermically nuclein and normal salt solution 20 C.C. (Parke, Davis and Co.) twice during the day. Next morning at 10 a .m. mare brighter and feeding; temperature, 0 102 F. The discharge from the womb had an evil smell, so I examined womb but failed to find any remains of placenta. Douched again with weak solution of lysol and warm water, and gave in structions to repeat every four hours. Repeated nuclein and salt solution injection. On returnin g next morning owner informed me that a small place of placenta came away with the evening douch. Mare quite well, temperature normal, with no stiffness or symptom of lameness. Nuclein appears in this case to have had some influence over sepsis and reduction of the temperature. I shall give it a further trial.
FRACT U RE OF THE OS SUFFRAGINIS IN A RACEHORSE. By MAXWELL E DGAR, M.R .C.V. S.
A CHEST N UT trotting stallion while doing a preliminary trot attempted to jump a footpath leading over the racing track. He fell and in doing so fractured his near hind pastern. Examination showed comminuted fracture of the os suffraginis. The pastern and fetlock were bandaged with strong gum plaster, and the horse walked with difficulty to a stable near the course. He was placed in slings, the gum plaster removed, the limb placed in plaster of Paris seemtdum artem. The pfaster set well, and from the foot to the hock the limb was completely fixed. He evidenced much pain for ten days, but fed well. He was taken out of slings at the end of the fifth week, much emaciated, and turned out into a small enclosure. Here he moved about freely, putting some weight on the toe of his foot, but on resting he had to be assisted to rise for about three days. The plaster was removed at the sixth week, and a light shoe with
Lipoma £n an Austral£a1z Cockatoo. a I~-in. raised bar heel placed on the foot. He now placed much weight on the foot and began to put on flesh. The heel of the shoe was lowered to i in. at the seventh week, and the horse walking sound was returned to owner, with instructions to remove shoe and turn him out to pasture. There was no excessive callus and no deformity of the part, examination of the joint before his departure showing no ankylosis. It will be interesting to know if the horse will race again. LIPOMA IN AN AUSTRALIAN COCKATOO ASSOCIATED WITH ENLARGED FATTY LIVER. By
J.
A. GILRUTH, D. V.Sc ., M.R.C.V.S.
THE bird, a galah (Cacatlla roseicapilla, Vieillot), was sent to me by Mr. C. Cummins Cherry, G.M.V.C., Melbourne, with the following history: The case had been brought under Mr. Cherry's notice about six months previously. Suspecting a malignant form of growth, and knowing the danger of operating on birds, he recommended destruction. As the tumour continued to increase in size the owner ultimately agreed to the course recommended, and the animal was killed under ancesthesia. Its age could not be determined. Situated subcutaneously on the inferior surface of the abdomen, slightly to the right of the median line, was a large oval tumour the size of a mandarin orange. Soft in consistence, it was definitely circumscribed, and was readily separated from the surrounding tissues, which were not infiltrated. On section the tissue proved homogeneous in appearance, being of a yellowis~-white colour, except at the posterior border, where there were the remains of an old blood extravasation, which suggested an attempt some time previously at operation. The knife was distinctly greasy, and a scraping examined under the microscope showed the tissue to be extremely fatty in nature. The viscera were normal, except the liver, which was greatly enlarged, pale, and mottled throughout with irregular greyish areas. On section the tissue was extremely soft and friable, while the knife blade showed distinctly globules of fat. The other internal organs were normal. Microscopical examination, as anticipated, showed the tumour to be composed entirely of fat cells. Sections of the liver showed congestion of capillaries, and small areas of blood extravasation. The whole of the hepatic cells were more or less infiltrated with fat; the majority being converted into typical fat cells with peripheral nuclei.
FRACT U RE OF THE OS SUFFRAGINIS IN A RACEHORSE. By MAXWELL E DGAR, M.R .C.V. S.
A CHEST N UT trotting stallion while doing a preliminary trot attempted to jump a footpath leading over the racing track. He fell and in doing so fractured his near hind pastern. Examination showed comminuted fracture of the os suffraginis. The pastern and fetlock were bandaged with strong gum plaster, and the horse walked with difficulty to a stable near the course. He was placed in slings, the gum plaster removed, the limb placed in plaster of Paris seemtdum artem. The pfaster set well, and from the foot to the hock the limb was completely fixed. He evidenced much pain for ten days, but fed well. He was taken out of slings at the end of the fifth week, much emaciated, and turned out into a small enclosure. Here he moved about freely, putting some weight on the toe of his foot, but on resting he had to be assisted to rise for about three days. The plaster was removed at the sixth week, and a light shoe with
Lipoma £n an Austral£a1z Cockatoo. a I~-in. raised bar heel placed on the foot. He now placed much weight on the foot and began to put on flesh. The heel of the shoe was lowered to i in. at the seventh week, and the horse walking sound was returned to owner, with instructions to remove shoe and turn him out to pasture. There was no excessive callus and no deformity of the part, examination of the joint before his departure showing no ankylosis. It will be interesting to know if the horse will race again. LIPOMA IN AN AUSTRALIAN COCKATOO ASSOCIATED WITH ENLARGED FATTY LIVER. By
J.
A. GILRUTH, D. V.Sc ., M.R.C.V.S.
THE bird, a galah (Cacatlla roseicapilla, Vieillot), was sent to me by Mr. C. Cummins Cherry, G.M.V.C., Melbourne, with the following history: The case had been brought under Mr. Cherry's notice about six months previously. Suspecting a malignant form of growth, and knowing the danger of operating on birds, he recommended destruction. As the tumour continued to increase in size the owner ultimately agreed to the course recommended, and the animal was killed under ancesthesia. Its age could not be determined. Situated subcutaneously on the inferior surface of the abdomen, slightly to the right of the median line, was a large oval tumour the size of a mandarin orange. Soft in consistence, it was definitely circumscribed, and was readily separated from the surrounding tissues, which were not infiltrated. On section the tissue proved homogeneous in appearance, being of a yellowis~-white colour, except at the posterior border, where there were the remains of an old blood extravasation, which suggested an attempt some time previously at operation. The knife was distinctly greasy, and a scraping examined under the microscope showed the tissue to be extremely fatty in nature. The viscera were normal, except the liver, which was greatly enlarged, pale, and mottled throughout with irregular greyish areas. On section the tissue was extremely soft and friable, while the knife blade showed distinctly globules of fat. The other internal organs were normal. Microscopical examination, as anticipated, showed the tumour to be composed entirely of fat cells. Sections of the liver showed congestion of capillaries, and small areas of blood extravasation. The whole of the hepatic cells were more or less infiltrated with fat; the majority being converted into typical fat cells with peripheral nuclei.