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alterations. After these investigations the author felt all the 
interest which attached to the previous history of the case. 
Unfortunately the data furnished by the herdsman were very 
imperfect and of little account. He had only noticed a weak¬ 
ness and gradual loss of condition in the animal, the origin of 
which commenced about two years before. Moreover, the 
respiration became laborious, and the beatings of the heart 
audible after exercise, which it was often necessary to interrupt 
in consequence. Sometimes this would occur without any 
visible cause. That he had sought no professional advice on 
these occasions was because he considered the animal was 
labouring under pulmonary phthisis. The author enters into 
a further discussion on the difficulties encountered by the 
veterinary surgeon in the diagnosis of these affections in the 
lungs, &c., of domestic animals compared with the human 
medical practitioner. 
Annales cle Medecine Veterinaire, Bruxelles, Juillet, 1862. 
DROPSY OF THE UTERINE MEMBRANES OF A COW. 
By M. Gerard, Medecin Veterinaire du Gouvernement a Guaregnon. 
The subject of this case was a cow nine years old, and 
about seven months in calf. She had previously had four calves 
without anything abnormal having occurred during gestation. 
She was off her appetite, drank but little, and that very slowly. 
On lying down, the respiration was difficult and plaintive; she 
grunted on being disturbed or on any one approaching or 
touching her. She had great difficulty in getting up, which 
she never did without coercion, but the weakness and great 
weight of her body prevented her standing up for any length 
of time. She w T ould lie down immediately when not pre¬ 
vented. These facts were furnished by the owner. The 
symptoms, or morbid appearances, were an enormous disten¬ 
sion of the abdomen to double of what it should have been in 
the normal state. The circumference was tolerably regular. 
There was, however, some deviation on the right side, and the 
spine, owing to the great weight, was also bent to the extent 
of one and a half centimetre. On examining the correspond¬ 
ing hypochondriac region, it offered great resistance on 
manual pressure, and presented a hard, unyielding mass; the 
skin, closely adhering to it, was thickened and corrugated, and 
but sparingly covered with hair, which turned in all directions. 
The flank, on the contrary, easily yielded, and conveyed the 
