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absorbed, and after small doses of bromide and iodide of potassium, 

 with a little exsiccated sulphate of iron, had been given daily, the 

 bones of the head flattened down into their normal condition. These 

 cases are more frequently found in the foetus, before birth — in calves 

 particularly — when the bones of the skull have to be broken down 

 with knife, hook, or forceps, before delivery can be accomplished. 



567. Ectopia Cerebralis is a congenital malformation where the 

 brain is developed outside the bones of the skull, and has been found 

 in cases at parturition, and although the young animals may be 

 fully developed, and born alive, they soon expire. 



568. Tumours in the brain of adult animals are met with 

 occasionally, and may exist for some time without causing any 

 disturbance, but the first symptoms to be noticed are those described 

 under abscesses. Setons and blisters, behind the ears, may be 

 serviceable, and iodide and bromide of potassium may be given night 

 and morning, in doses of one to two drachms each. Tumours of a 

 tubercular nature are more commonly found in the brain of the cow, 

 with symptoms analogous to those given under abscesses in the brain 

 of the horse, (par. 565) and including loss of sight, &c. There are 

 numerous other tumours found in the brain, the chief of these being 

 of the bony, and melanotic varieties. 



569. Sturdy, Gid, or Turnsick.— This is an affection of the brain 

 due to the presence of a brain tumour, or rather a watery cyst, or 

 bleb, which is the cystic stage of the tcsnia ceenurus — a tape worm 

 affecting the dog. This cyst, which is known as the ccemtrus cerebralis, 

 is developed from a segment of the worm, which is passed out of the 

 bowel along wdth the faeces. The segment contains a large number 

 of eggs, and is supposed to be taken up and swallowed along with the 

 herbage on which the animal feeds. On reaching the stomach, the 

 heat therein soon sets the young embryo at liberty, and it is then 

 taken into the circulation, and carried by the blood stream to the 

 brain, which, being its natural habitat, is preferred to any other part 

 of the body, and, therefore, selected for its abode, and further trans- 



