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an hour together is attended with so much effect, that M. Bazin 
has reduced the twelve days of treatment to two or three ; 
which rapidity of admission and discharge from the hospital 
has enabled us to do a thing unknown before, — to reduce the 
hundred beds for itched patients down to twenty. 
Recueil de Mid. Vitirinaire, de Janvier 1851. 
SARCOMA OVARII IN A COW. 
By F. Meyer, V.S., Berne. 
[Translated by Mr. Ernes.] 
A COW, about nine years old, was sent to the fattening 
pasture with a number of others, in the spring of 1848, and 
had gained a good deal of flesh ; but as the fat market was very 
low, and the cow in calf, she was put back to be milked for 
another season. She remained in good health up to the 20th 
of January 1849, when she was suddenly affected with an 
anormous fluctuating tumour on one of the hind extremities. 
This tumour covered nearly the whole inside of the thigh, and 
extended from hip to hock on the outside, and contained above 
a large stable-pailful of. fluid. No cause for this could be 
assigned. By proper means the swelling was removed. In 
four weeks from this nothing more had occurred, and the animal 
continued apparently in good health until she was near her 
time of calving, with the exception that she appeared to be of 
an unusual size, measuring nine feet round the body over the 
loins; otherwise, every thing else seemed in its normal state. 
After calving, the size of the abdomen had but little subsided. 
She gave but a moderate quantity of milk, and remained in the 
same state until the spring, 1850, when she was turned again 
into the pasture for the purpose of fattening. This time, how- 
ever, she did not improve, though her appetite and digestion 
seemed good. The proprietor again consulted F. Meyer, who, 
after a careful examination, could not discover any thing amiss, 
with the exception of the enormous size of the abdomen (8 to 
10 feet in circumference), and a somewhat unthrifty coat, with a 
slight cough, although he examined her both per anum et 
vulvam. The os uteri was closed and soft. The owner had 
heard of a successful case of paracentesis abdominis performed 
by a colleague in the neighbourhood, and, fancying the case of 
his cow analogous, wished the operation to be tried, in spite of 
the absence of fluctuation. F. Meyer undertook the operation, 
