584 PROGRESS OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART. 
Mr. Sydney Jones, in his remarks on the case of ectopia 
cordis above spoken of as related in the 4 Transactions of the 
Pathological Society,’ says that, 44 in the cervical ectopia the 
heart is situated in front of the neck, either immediately 
above the thorax or in connection with the under part of the 
head; no authentic case is on record where the heart was 
situated in the middle region of the neck. 
“ Vaubonnais relates a case that occurred in a human fetus 
of eight months, that was born dead ; the heart, deprived 
of pericardium, was suspended from the neck by means of 
its great vessels, which passed within and without at the 
lower part of the neck. 
44 Among the lower animals, a case is mentioned by 
Walter, in the 4 Mus. Anat/ It occurred in a lamb which 
lived six days after its birth. 
44 Breschet relates three cases where the heart was situated 
immediately beneath the head. One is extracted from a 
4 Memo^re , of Dr. Bonfils; of the other two he was him- 
self the observer. In one of these the apex of the heart was 
found united to the tongue, between the separated halves of 
the inferior maxilla. The sternum and the diaphragm were 
open along the median line, and the greater part of the 
abdominal viscera had penetrated into the thorax by the 
opening in the diaphragm, and occupied the space left empty 
by the displacement of the thoracic organs. The subject 
was a little girl, probably born prematurely, and w ho did not 
appear to have lived. No mention is made of the pericar- 
dium.” 
Mr. Sydney Jones next refers to the external abdominal 
displacements where the heart forms a hernial protrusion 
with the abdominal viscera. 
44 Klein gives an instance (Meckel's 4 Deutsches Archiv fiir 
die Physiol.’) which occurred in a female fetus of eight 
months (the result of a first pregnancy). It gave very few 
signs of life, and was only six inches and a half long. The 
abdominal integuments were absent, and there w r as a hernial 
protrusion of the digestive viscera, and, following these, the 
heart. 
44 Sandifort (in 4 Act. Helvet.’) mentions another instance 
occurring in a premature fetus. 
44 Beclard and Breschet have related a third case. 
44 Other cases are described by Prochaska ( 4 Adnotat. 
Academ.’, fasc. iii, Prague, 1734, tab. ii and iii) ; by Heroid ; 
and by Starke in 4 Archiv. fiir die Geburtsch.’ Pinelli, 
Malacarne, Voigtel, and Heischmann have also published 
cases referable to this head.” 
