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CRIB-BITING 
To the sublumbar region was attached a conical body slightly 
curved, presenting nearly the form of a heart, and almost as 
large as a pail. Its base included the two kidneys, and its point 
hung free in the abdomen. From the base, and from the side of 
the left kidney, a large cord proceeded, apparently of the same na- 
ture of the tumour itself. It was continued anteriorly and poste- 
riorly, upwards and downwards, and terminated in the cartilaginous 
portion of the ribs. This mass, being carefully raised and separated 
from the kidneys, weighed more than 27Jlbs. On being cut into, 
in different parts, it appeared to be of a cartilaginous nature, except 
that there existed some spots of a deep yellow colour ; beneath 
these were excavations as large as an egg, which contained a puri- 
form yellow matter. 
This appeared to me to be a scirrhous tumcur, the commencement 
of the growth of which must certainly be carried back to the period 
when the animal began to exhibit a weakness in the loins. As for 
any thing else, and whatever may be its nature, I do not suppose 
that it had the least to do with the production of the disease of 
which I have given an account; for it did not by its situation afford 
any obstacle to the proper discharge of the digestive functions. 
There was a simple serous effusion in the thoracic cavity, and the 
posterior edge of the left lobe of the lung was hepatized. 
The cavity of the cranium did not exhibit any thing unusual. 
[We select this deceptive case of fever , as we should call it — fever 
never subdued, and that would at some not very distant period 
have destroyed the patient, without the aid of the distention of 
the stomach — we select this case, as enabling us to form a tolera- 
bly correct idea of the practice of our country veterinary brethren 
on the neighbouring continent. This is our object, and there- 
fore we make no comment on the practice; but we must say, that 
we regard the enlarged mesenteric gland as intimately connected 
with the disease, perhaps with its origin, but most certainly with 
its continuance. — Y.] 
CRIB- BITING. 
We return, and with much reluctance, to this most obscure and 
unsatisfactory subject. Could it have been divined that the Essay 
on Crib-biting which was presented to the Veterinary Medical Asso - 
ciation by Mr. Holmes, would afterwards, and by the authority of 
its author, have appeared in the columns of a provincial paper — that 
that which was gratefully received as a contribution to veterinary 
