274 DISEASE IN AND OPERATION ON TWO SWINE. 
its head hung down, its eyes fixed, insensible to outward objects, 
the pulse feeble, and at 40 ; the palpitations of the heart percep- 
tible ; the breathing, dunging, and mucous membranes, natural ; 
and the temperature of the ears, forehead, and roots of the horns, 
at about their usual height. 
Deeming this attack to be a congestio passiva of the brain, I 
bled the animal, passed two setons through the neck, and gave 
salts internally. 
Four-and-twenty hours afterwards there was no symptom of 
amendment: the animal continued on its feet; the head hung 
down, silent, and insensible, excepting now and then, when, for a 
few moments, the teeth ceased to grind together, and it drank a 
mouthful or two of thin bran water, gaped, shook and stretched 
itself, and then relapsed into its former silent, motionless apathy. 
On the 23d of March the animal was destroyed. I carefully 
examined the belly and chest, but found no trace of disease, or any 
alteration, excepting in the intestinal canals, which, from the long 
fasting of the animal, were much contracted. After carefully 
taking off the top of the skull I perceived a sarcoma, of about two 
inches in diameter, situated immediately in the front, between and 
upon the two hemispheres of the large brain : it was very firm, 
and of a fibrous structure. The brain itself did not appear to have 
undergone any alteration, and in the ventricles of the brain was 
found the usual quantity of serous fluid. 
Magazin fur die Gesammte Thierheilkunde, 1845, p. 331. 
Account of a Disease in two Swine, and an Operation 
PERFORMED ON THEM. 
By Herr Yolk, V.S., Wernburg . 
Some little time ago I was sent for by Herr Fischer, of Klein- 
Dambach, to look at two three-quarters-of-a-year-old pigs, and to 
say whether or not any thing could be done for them. I found 
these animals very much blown — the rectum closed up — the pulse 
and palpitations of the heart rapid — the ears and snout cold — the 
breathing very much accelerated, and no appetite. Pressure on 
the flanks appeared to produce great pain, and the animals groaned 
loudly. 
On making some inquiries, in order to be able better to form 
my opinion as to the nature of the disease, I was informed by 
