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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
There is a slight increase in the number of infected 
counties since the last return; the numbers being forty-one 
against thirty-four in the previous return. 
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
The number of counties from which reports have been 
received is forty- seven against fifty in the previous return ; the 
number of cases, however, has slightly increased as compared 
with the last report, but in comparison with the correspond- 
ing return of last year the attacks have decreased by nearly 
two thirds. 
OSSIFYING ENCHONDROMA IN THE MAMMA) 
OF A BITCH. 
Messrs. Gowing & Son have forwarded a very interesting 
specimen of a tumour which was removed from the mammse 
of a bitch by Mr. Gowing, junior. The morbid growth was 
tuberous in the external surface, and covered with a very 
attenuated integument. Internally it presented the aspect of 
a colloid tumour having numerous loculi, which were filled 
with a gelatinous material possessing the characters of glue. 
The walls of the loculi were composed of cartilage of the foetal 
variety, the cells being small and aggregated. A considerable 
extent of ossific deposit was found in the interior of the 
growth. The glue-like substance was made up of large 
granular cells, nucleated cells, and plates of cholesterine. 
Messrs. Gowing & Son report that the animal is doing 
well. 
POISONING CATTLE BY WATER DROPWORT. 
Mr. Olver, M.R.C.Y.S., Edingall, Tamworth, has sent us 
an account of the sudden death of some cattle from eating 
the roots of the plant commonly known as water dropwort, 
(Enanthe crocata. There are many species of the dropwort, 
all of which are poisonous to a greater or less extent ; those 
best known are the large dropwort (Enanthe crocata , and the 
fine-leaved (Enanthe pellandrium, both of which are 
common on the banks of rivers and ditches, as well as in 
swamps and watery places. In the present instance the 
mischief arose from the scourings out of ditches which con- 
tained the roots of the plant, being cast into a field in which 
the animals were turned to graze. Several allied instances of 
the kind have come under our immediate observation, 
