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magnitude and shape of a common round garden melon, weighing 
4Jfc. 2oz., attached closely to the concave or mesenteric side of the 
jejunum, at a distance of fifteen or sixteen feet from the stomach. 
It was included between the peritoneal layers of the mesentery, 
which had formed a complete case for it, and was continuous both 
superiorly and inferiorly with the peritoneal coat of the intestine. 
Opposite the part, however, against v/hich it was lying, and for 
some extent above and below it, there was a remarkable attenua- 
tion of the tunics of the gut, as though its muscular substance had 
disappeared through absorption. Yet the passage of the canal 
did not appear to have been affected by the tumour, neither 
was there any discolouration, as indicative of inflammation or 
disease, in any part. In one place the dysentery was found, to 
the extent of six or eight inches, torn from its attachment to the 
spine ; the effect, seemingly, of the draggings or jerking of the 
tumour upon it during the struggles of the horse in his paroxysms 
of pain. This laceration had occasioned a twist of the gut, which 
had completely stopped the passage through it ; the oil of turpen- 
tine that had been given being perfectly detectible by the smell 
above the twist, though undiscoverable below it. The tumour, 
on being cut into, exhibited a marbly granular sort of aspect, the 
composing substance of which was soft and of a pale ashy colour ; 
and yet, when pressed or squeezed, proving tough and leathery from, 
as it would appear, numerous intersecting slender bands, densely 
cellular, and perhaps ligamentous in their composition. In fine, it 
was a species of the class “ fibrous tumours;” and had, to all 
appearance, been some considerable time in coming to its present 
growth and composition. 
Extracts from Foreign Journals. 
The Inoculation of Flocks of Sheep for Small-Pox , viewed as a 
Measure of Sanitary Police. 
By O. Delafond. 
[From the “ Recueil de M^decine Veterinaire” for Nov. and Dec. 1847.] 
An inquiry such as this, conducted by such a man as M. 
Delafond, to say the least of it, is interesting to us, even though 
the sheep small-pox is but at present a visitor to our flocks. Let 
us hope it may never become indigenous among them. Mean- 
while, for fear it ever should turn out to be a stock disease, there 
