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sary for the accomplishment of this re-ascension that the paunch 
'should contract itself in every way, in order to push the food 
towards the esophagian canal, whose lips open to receive and 
mould the alimentary ball which passes through them, and re¬ 
mounts to the esophagus. The energetic contraction of the muscles 
aid the ascension; but if the paunch, after having been cut or punc¬ 
tured, and inundated with fluid, contracts itself, whether by means 
of the stimulus of the substance which it contains or to effect the 
ascension of the alimentary pellet when it is thus filled with both 
solid and fluid contents, is it not to be feared that some portion of 
the fluid and solid food will pass through the incision, and fall into 
the abdominal cavity. The presence of these substances in the 
peritoneal sac will invariably produce violent inflammation, and 
the death of the animal. Of this I have had many proofs, the 
particulars of which I cannot, for obvious reasons, now enter into.” 
MISCELLANEA. 
A Case of Acute Hepatitis in an Ox. 
By M. Delage, of Toulouse. 
On the 12th of July 1832, I was desired to see a Gascony ox, 
nine or ten years old, that was supposed to be rabid. The head 
was extended—the eyes fixed—the shoulders were cold, but there 
was heat about the hypochondriac region and the belly—the hind 
legs were close together, and incessantly trembling. The animal 
would often abandon himself to divers disorderly movements, and, 
among others, would strike his head forcibly against his flanks, and 
sometimes he seemed to have a desire to bite those around him. 
The pulse was strong and rapid. 
To these symptoms succeeded perspiration over the whole body, 
heaviness of the head, and evident stupidity. There was weeping 
from the eye, and a quantity of spume, which on the first ap¬ 
pearance of the disease was collected at the corners of the mouth. 
This w’as succeeded by a mucilaginous fluid, which ran slowly 
from the mouth. 
Such were the symptoms which presented themselves at my 
first visit, during the two hours that 1 was with the patient. I 
could form no satisfactory diagnosis, yet it was necessary to pre¬ 
scribe something. I bled from the coccygeal artery, and admi¬ 
nistered gruel with a small portion of opium. 
On the following day I again saw the animal, and to the symp- 
