PROGRESS OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART. 219 
diameter six, and in its short four inches. Speaking generally, 
it may be said to be covered with long hair of a red colour, but 
on one of its borders, where the umbilical vessels entered, is 
a hairless spot. On the opposite border is the rudiment of 
a lower jaw, which contains four well-developed and perfectly 
formed incisor teeth ; three of which have cut the gum. By 
the side of this a lip-like projection exists, evidently the 
analogue of the upper lip, and on raising it a piece of mucous 
membrane is brought into view, which is crossed by rugae 
similar in arrangement to those of the palate of the perfect 
animal. A little above the rudimental jaw, and on the right 
side, is a small cartilaginous ear ; and just below this, and a 
little behind it, a nude spot exists having somewhat the 
form of eyelids. On the opposite side some long hairs 
represent the other ear, but no outline of an eye can be 
detected. Several ossified spots can be felt, one of which 
has the form of the bones of the skull, but as a whole the 
Anidian is spongy and elastic to the feel. Its weight is 
14 ounces avoirdupois.] 
Contemporary Progress of Veterinary Science 
and Art, 
By John Gamgee, M.R.C.V.S., 
Lecturer on Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, London. 
[Continued from p. 152.) 
Fungoid Degeneration of the Globe of the Eye 
in a Cow — Extirpation — Cure. — My friend Saint- 
Cyr, assistant clinical teacher in the School of Lyons, relates 
an interesting case of organic disease of the eye, which he 
observed in a cow that entered the College Infirmary the 22d 
of March, 1855. Six months previously she had been pur- 
chased, just as badly affected as she was at the time of admit- 
tance into the hospital. A tumour bulged from the left 
orbit, the eyelids were thick, indurated, and closed over the 
growth ; their free margin and mucous lining were the seat 
of soft, bleeding, painless excrescences w hich completely hid 
the eye, converted as it w T as itself into a mass of fungosities 
bathed in fetid and sanious pus, which constantly oozed out 
of the orbit. At the base of the ear, moreover, was an ulce- 
rated tumour, three or four lines in diameter, yielding an 
ichorous discharge. 
