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tration of fistulae into and the formation of abscesses in the spinal 
canal, are rare and valuable contributions to the knowledge of 
the pathology of the sensorial system. 
Quitting the sensorial system of the horse, we find many a 
paper of much intrinsic value relating to the diseases of the di¬ 
gestive one. The supposed periodical fits to which a mare was 
subject—the evidently threatened suffocation by means of a 
polypus occupying the pharynx, is well described by Mr. Good- 
worth. The means that he adopted w^eie scientific and decisive. 
The fungus heematodes which spread around the parotid gland 
and occupied the whole side of the face and the space beneath 
the jaw, as related by M. Crepin, affords another instance of the 
ineffectual struggle of the most consummate surgical skill wdtli 
this irrepressible morbid growth. Will some veterinarian of con¬ 
siderable observation and practice take up this almost unmen¬ 
tioned evil—this opprobrium of our profession ; and also, for the 
sake of diagnostic reputation, the subject treated of by Professor 
Dupuy—rupture of the stomach. Is the characteristic symp¬ 
tom of the rupture of this viscus, or of some other portion of the^ 
alimentary canal, a rapid convulsive movement of the inferior 
coccygean muscles ? We confess that, in two cases of ruptured 
stomach which have occurred within the last year or two, either 
this symptom had no existence, or it escaped our observation. 
Has any practitioner put to the test the remedy proposed by 
M. Dupuy when staggers are supervening on gastric distention, 
namely, the injection of from fifteen to thirty grains of tartar 
emetic into the jugular or crural vein? This, according to the 
Professor, rarely fails of giving relief, after having produced 
speedy and active purgation. 
Mr. Spooner describes an immense calculus found in the 
colon of a horse, and which, by constant irritation of some of 
the sacculi of that intestine, eventually produced inflammation 
and death. 
M. Dubuisson gives two successful cases of puncture of 
the caecum, after all other means had failed to relieve flatulent 
colic; and I^rofessor Vatel describes the mode of performing 
this operation. The surgeon would scarcely have recourse to 
