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the treatment prescribed was accordingly. One symptom, 
however, which struck the author, was the dilatation of the 
jugular vein after venesection. This was attributed by him 
to the congestion of the lungs; but after® repeated bleedings, 
the vein did not disgorge itself, although all the other symp¬ 
toms subsided, and there was a chance of a speedy cure; but 
the animal became very weak, the appetite decreased, the 
mucous membranes became very pale and infiltrated with 
serum, the pulse small and accelerated, and there was loss of 
power in the anterior parts of the body. 
The diagnosis was now organic disease. The lungs being 
perfectly free, the author fixed his attention on the heart, 
which he ausculted with great care several times. The beat¬ 
ings w T ere not very perceptible, which seemed to indicate 
effusion into the pericardium; the pulsation was irregular, 
that which corresponded to the left ventricle being strong, 
while the other was hardly perceptible. From these facts, 
and taking into consideration the turgid state of the jugular 
veins, the slow progress of the malady, and the irregularity in 
the beating of the heart, the author thought he had to deal 
with an abscess in the heart, or a cancerous degeneration of 
that organ, but was inclined towards the latter opinion, which 
he communicated to the proprietor. 
The animal sank under the disease two months after, which 
enabled the author to verify his diagnosis. The pericardium 
contained nearly six litres of serum, in the midst of which 
floated flakes of organized lymph ; the whole of the cellular 
tissue was infiltrated, the jugular veins were gorged with blood, 
and on making an incision in the right wall of the heart, which 
was of an enormous size, so as to nearly obliterate the ven¬ 
tricle, there were found many cavities, with their partitions, 
containing pus, resembling, in colour and consistence, a solu¬ 
tion of gum, or gelatine, in which were observed flakes of a 
yellow colour, which appeared to be formed by a coagulum 
of fibro-albuminous matter. 
It was, therefore, a true cancerous degeneration of the right 
side of the heart. 
A VARIETY OE GASTRITIS IN AN OX. 
By M. Gilis, Veterinaire. 
This malady, of which the author gives a short descrip¬ 
tion, has, he says, often been observed by him in the larger 
ruminants. 
