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REVIEW.—CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
In the fourth we are transported to the Wicklow mountains, 
with the portraits of a ram and ewe of which we are presented. 
They are admirable likenesses. They are more valuable, since the 
system of crossing with the South Downs has been lately intro¬ 
duced, and is' rapidly spreading. It has, certainly, effected very 
considerable improvement, both in the wool and the carcass. The 
portraits of the old Wicklows, from the mountain and the vale, 
will, by and by, be considerably prized. Y. 
An advertisement of a work on the Foot of the Horse, by Mr. 
W. C. Spooner, of Southampton, occupies a portion of our cover. 
We have had the opportunity of seeing the first sheet, and we 
think that the performance will be worthy of him and of his 
subject.—Y. 
Cattle Pathology. By R. B. Gell^, Professor at the 
Veterinary School at Toulouse. 
[Continued from page 304.] 
Hernia of the second Stomach. —We find in the Compte 
Rendu of the labours of the Veterinary School at Alfort, during 
the scholastic year 1809-10, the following unique fact:—A cow, 
twelve years old, was destroyed for dissection. She presented an 
example of hernia of very considerable size, and which penetrated 
through the diaphragm, and was lodged in the thoracic cavity. The 
opening through which it passed was above the abdominal prolong¬ 
ation of the sternum. It was round, and nine inches in diameter. 
It had pressed forward almost to the pericardium, but was confined 
to the surrounding parts by an abundant laminated tissue, which 
had not undergone any alteration. 
This old displacement—for so it seemed to be—of the reticulum 
proves that hernia has little or no influence in the discharge of the 
functions, if there is no strangulation. It would, nevertheless, have 
been curious to have observed, whether respiration was not dis¬ 
turbed by the presence of this stomach in the thorax, and whether 
the dilatation of the lungs was not materially interfered with. 
In this case of displacement of the reticulum, and in which it 
was removed beyond the influence of the diaphragm and of the ab¬ 
dominal muscles, do we not also find a proof that the contraction of 
the fleshy membrane of the stomachs and intestines is the primary 
and active power which presides over rumination, so far as the 
passage from one stomach to another, and the different phenomena 
of motion, are concerned in digestion, and that the diaphragm and 
abdominal muscles are only auxiliaries 1 
