ON SCROFULA IN OXEN AND PIGS. 
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laid open and the lungs exposed, I was struck with their collapsed 
and blackened appearance. The right side of the heart was very 
much dilated, and filled with coagulated blood. The parenchyma- 
tous structure of the lungs did not appear to be in the least disor- 
ganized, their colour being dependent upon the quantity of venous 
blood they contained. 
On examining into the state of the bronchial tubes, which I found 
perfectly healthy, I happened to lay open, for some length, one of 
the branches of the pulmonary artery, and was surprised to find, 
closely impacted in it, a quantity of worms, which were covered 
with coagulum. On farther examination, the whole of this blood- 
vessel and its ramifications were found to present the same appear- 
ances, only that, at. its origin, those parasites were much larger 
and more numerous. The semilunar valves effectually prevented 
their escape into the ventricle. 
The longest were from ten to eleven inches in length, and about 
one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter ; the smallest were from an 
inch to an inch and a half in length, and about the diameter of a 
common" sewing needle, presenting a smooth, glossy exterior, and 
tapering to a fine point at both extremities. 
If the above case should be thought by you sufficiently interest- 
ing to be deserving of a nook in the pages of The Veterinarian, 
it is at your service. 
ON SCROFULA IN OXEN AND PIGS. 
By M. Toggia. 
[Translated from the Italian of M. Toggia, sen.] 
UNDER the article Scrofula in the Dictionnaire cle Medecine et 
de Chirurgie Vctcrinaires,we. find the following: “We think we 
have somewhere read that a certain swelling on the neck of pigs 
may be ascribed to scrofula; but we cannot recall where.” 
A recent circumstance having made me curious to see if this 
work did not speak of such affections, I was the more struck by 
this passage, and began to think whether I might not possibly be 
able to supply that which was wanting in M. Hurtrel d’Arboval’s 
work. Acting on this supposition, I found at the 232d page of the 
second volume of the second edition of a Treatise, by Toggia, sen., 
on the diseases of the lower classes of animals — “ Oxen and pigs,” 
