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tion of the master or the servants while the inflammation was in a 
recent state. Although there may be some obscurity in the diag- 
nostic symptoms of oesophagitis in our domesticated animals, they 
may, without any great error, be stated as the following : — diffi- 
culty of deglutition — the regurgitation of a portion or the whole of 
that which had entered the canal — their arrest in some part of 
it — the swelling and hardness of the tube at some particular spot — 
the greater or less sensibility of the tube at that place — the exas- 
peration of the symptoms after the animal has drunk, or while he is 
taking drink — the almost constant absence of redness or heat in 
the mouth and the pharynx, and, finally, the greater or less meteo r 
rization of the abdomen. 
In inflammation of the pharynx, on the contrary, there is tender- 
ness of the throat, which manifests itself on the slightest pressure. 
Often there is enlargement at that region. There is always dis- 
gust of food, and redness and heat of the mouth, and a flow of 
saliva from the pharynx. It is not then easy to confound these two 
maladies. 
We make no apology for the introduction of this theoretical rea- 
soning — that in which the Professor does not, indeed, often indulge.. 
The subject is a new and important one, and will help to illustrate 
the valuable memoir of M. Renault in another part of this Number. 
Schirrus and Cancer of the (Esophagus . 
Professor Gelle gives an interesting account of the former of these 1 
diseases, and for which he acknowledges his obligation to M. Dan- 
drieu, a name not altogether unknown to our readers. 
A ram of the common breed of the country was ill several days, 
without any apparent cause. He was rapidly losing condition, 
and had, during the last eight or ten days, vomited the greater part 
of the aliment which he obtained in the field. There was a slight 
meteorization of the paunch, which increased when the animal 
swallowed or ruminated. The act of rumination was not performed 
in a natural manner. The alimentary pellet did not reascend to> 
the mouth until after repeated efforts, and it had imbibed a suffi- 
cient quantity of fluid, which was ejected from the mouth as soon 
as the pellet had arrived at it. Deglutition also was executed 
with much difficulty, and followed by a hoarse cough. 
M. Dandrieu suspected some organic lesion of the abomasum, 
or the presence of some foreign body in the oesophagus. The 
more he thought of the case, the more he inclined to the latter opi- 
nion. He carefully examined the gullet, and he found, just where' 
it entered the thoracic cavity, that this organ presented a hard in- 
dolent tumour, as large as a pullet’s egg. At the moment of the 
