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altliougli the former contained all the bladders. Plering could 

 not find any heads of the coenurus on the interior of the sacs, 

 and he held them to be yet undeveloped hydatids. — RepertO' 

 rium fur Thcerheil, p. 21, 1855, Stuttgart. 



" In the second volume of the Milan Veterinary Journal^ at 

 page 52, is a case of sturdy, recorded by Patellani. It occurred 

 in a two-years-old animal, that had shown, for several days, 

 attacks of madness ; and in one of these, it had broken a horn 

 off. Patellani found her lying senseless on the ground, the 

 head bent on one side, the forehead hot, painful on percussion, 

 the sound produced hollow. On examination after death, the 

 membrane of the brain was found injected, and in the right 

 ventricle of the cerebrum, were hydatids with several heads." 



" The trephine, has of late years been much recommended in 

 cases of cerebral hydatids in cattle ; and in Bavaria and 

 Wurtemberg, it has frequently been employed, and often with 

 good results. At the Clinique of the Munich Veterinary 

 School, in the month of November, 1854, a year-old heifer 

 was presented, with expansion of the right frontal bone ; there 

 were symptoms of giddiness, with turning towards the right 

 side, dulness, etc. Ramoser found, on percussing the seat of 

 the disease, that the sound was most hollow to the left. The 

 case was observed for forty-three days, during which time the 

 symptoms became more severe ; the animal was trephined, 

 and about two ounces of serum passed out, followed by the 

 bag of the parasite. The wound would have been closed with 

 a clay plaster, but the animal had to be slaughtered the fol- 

 lowing day. The membranes of the brain were inflamed, 

 especially to the right, and blood was extravasated on its 

 surface. The expansion, thinning, and even perforation of the 

 upper part of the right lateral ventricle, showed that the 

 bladder was lodged in the ventricle itself, as had been seen the 

 previous year, in another case that had been operated upon. 

 Death was then attributable to the far advanced stage of the 

 malady, and to the abrupt collapse of the parietes of the ven- 

 tricle, after contraction of the bladder." — Miinchen Jaliresher, 

 for 1854-5, p. 13. 



