412 Veterinary Medicine. 



Baruchello found iu a cavalry regiment a large number of 

 horses affected with inflammation along the line of the mane from 

 the forelock to the withers, and on the rump, with the formation 

 of tumors, in size from a millet seed to a pigeon's egg, isolated or 

 confluent, and slightly tender but without pruritus. The nodules, 

 at first hard, soon softened in the centre and bursting discharged 

 pus containing numerous small, agamous nematodes, 2 to 5 mm. 

 in length, thick toward the head with terminal, round mouth, and 

 tapering to the tail which had the anus at its base. In other 

 forms the tail was truncated and the anus terminal, but, placed in 

 water, these developed into the first form. Three of the affected 

 horses died and in the peritoneum were found a very large 

 number of Filaria Papulosa, which the author plausibly con- 

 cluded to be the parents of the larvae in the skin. This outbreak 

 agreed with those caused .by Filaria Irritans, and the Indian 

 Bursatti, in appearing in the warm season, spring and summer. 

 It yielded to local treatment with sulphur, phenol, glycerine and 

 vaseline. 



H^MATOZOA OF RUMINANTS. 



Filaria in the pulmonary blood of camels. Bilharzia crassa in cattle and 

 sheep. Sexes apart ; length yi to % inch ; ovum fusiform. Habitat : Por- 

 tal veins ; Egypt, India, Italy ; intestinal catarrh ; pin-head swellings with 

 ova in mucosa. Chylous urine (?). Prevention: As for distoma hepati- 

 cum. Cysticercus Tenuicollis in heart muscle. Echinococcus in heart, sim- 

 ple and multilocular. 



Nematodes. Fii,aria have been found by Gonbaux and 

 Evans respectively in the blood of camels. In both cases they 

 occupied the pulmonary vessels, in one the mesenteric, and in one 

 the lymphatic vessels as well. The failure to discover the filaria 

 cervina in the ox is surprising, considering its frequency in the 

 peritoneal cavity, in certain districts. 



Trematodes. Bilharzia Crassa : The Large Bilharzia. 

 This has been held to be only a larger variety of the Bilharzia 

 hsematobia of man, like which it has the sexes in different indi- 

 viduals. It was found by Sonsino at Zagazig, Egypt, in 1876, in 

 the portal veins of sheep and cattle, and later at Calcutta and in 

 Italy (Catania). The male is about )^ inch long, cylindrical and 



