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Contemporary Progress of Veterinary Science 
and Art. 
By John Gamgee, M.R.C.V.S., 
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Edinburgh 
Veterinary College. 
[Continued from <p. 3^5.) 
Not having had occasion to revise the proof sheets of 
last month’s article, some errors, but of no very great im- 
portance, crept into it. Speaking of pleuropneumonia it 
was “ Lessona,” and not “ Lepona” I quoted. The case of 
laryngitis was observed by “ Ringuet” and not “ Rinquet” 
In my comments on M. Lafosse’s instance of dental 
tumours, I say that Lafosse looked on the case he published 
as “ a foetal inclusion/ 5 but I should rather have said as an 
cc aberration in development. 55 He does not class them with 
the teeth formed in the ovary, &c., but rather with those 
instances where an extra limb or portion of an extremity is 
to be met with. It is an accidental excess of parts in an 
otherwise well-formed individual. 
Suppurative phlebitis of the jugular vein. — 
Less fond of depletives than in most parts of the continent, 
and not so rash as formerly in the operation of bloodletting, 
cases of inflammation of the jugular, excessively common 
years back, and up to the present day abroad, are now 
comparatively rare amongst us. Notwithstanding we do 
occasionally see an obliterated vein, but it is very seldom 
a horse is lost with suppurative phlebitis. Haemorrhage has, 
however, been observed, at times so very troublesome as to 
drive individuals to ligature of the vein, a case of which has 
been recorded by Mr. Taylor, of Nottingham, and many 
others in foreign journals. 
M. Rey, in the Journal de MSdecine Veterinaire for June 
and July of last year, publishes a memoir with a long list of 
cases, advocating the extraction of the diseased vein as 
unattended with risk, and hence a most successful operation 
though somewhat difficult to perform . The portion of the 
article which merits our attention, and calls for some 
remarks, is an anatomical description, by M. St. Cyr, of the 
lesions observable in inflamed jugular veins. 
