ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
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EXTRACTION, BY GASTROTOMY, OF A FOREIGN BODY FROM 
THE SECOND COMPARTMENT OF AN OX’S STOMACH. 
Schwarz, a veterinary surgeon at Landau, had recourse to 
this operation, which has been already described by Obich 
in 1863 and 1864. The symptoms which led him to expect 
the presence of a foreign body in one of the first compart- 
ments of the stomach were, meteorization for twenty-four 
hours, without circulation or normal defecation ; dryness 
of the muzzle; disturbed rumination, and moaning when 
lying down. 
After administering without effect, within four hours, two 
doses of spirits of turpentine, an ounce and a half in each dose, 
Schwarz proposed to perform gastrotomy. This operation, 
undertaken forty-eight hours after his first visit, allowed him, 
after the removal of a small quantity of alimentary matters, 
to introduce his hand into the reticulum, and extract from it 
a blunt-pointed nail. A perfect recovery soon followed. — 
Ibid., p. 214. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
In the journal from which the above extracts have been 
derived, there is an article on the cattle plague, which has 
furnished Professor F. Defays, of the Brussels school, with 
the following conclusions : — When the symptomatic tableau 
of the disease, at its different invasions, is compared, there 
are found variations which it is necessary to take into con- 
sideration, in order to be able to pronounce with certainty as 
to the nature of the disease. Thus, the buccal lesions which 
during the last invasion in Holland and Belgium (1865-67) 
were very marked, are at present scarcely perceptible in 
Alsace. It is the same with the muco-purulent secretion of the 
pituitary and conjunctival membranes, which is nearly always 
absent, while the pneumonic symptoms and the prostration 
of the vital powers are very pronounced. Death also ensues 
rapidly, the affected cattle seldom resisting the malady more 
than three days. “ These remarks are valuable to us,” adds 
M. Defays, “for should the disease preserve the form it now 
has in France, and, notwithstanding all the judicious mea- 
sures adopted, it extends to our country, it is evident that we 
will be able to recognise it more readily than by adhering 
exactly to the tableau drawn up in 1866.” 
COLIC. 
In the same journal is a valuable notice with regard to 
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