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Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Annates de Medecine Veterinaire, July, I860. 
RESUME OE THE GOVERNMENTAL VETERINARY REPORTS 
ON THE HEALTH OE ANIMALS IN THE PROVINCE OE 
BRABANT, 1859. 
From this report we find that glanders has diminished 
in frequency, and also pleuro-pneumonia, in some cantons, 
while in others the number of cases has been even greater 
than usual. Inoculation for the latter is not mentioned by 
any practitioner in his report. Of apoplexy of the spinal 
cord, which was so frequent, in 1858, in East Flanders and 
the province of Antwerp, only two cases in each have been 
observed by MM. Dubois and Andre, and these were com¬ 
plicated with paraplegia: neither of them, however, termi¬ 
nated fatally. 
In one case M. Dubois observed that the urine was 
bloody and contained oil. This peculiarity has been unno¬ 
ticed "by most in acute affections of the spinal marrow. It 
may be added that it also loses its characteristic odour. It 
is the more necessary to notice this alteration of the urine in 
affections of the spinal cord, so as not to confound them with 
rheumatism of the lumbar region. 
M. Lecouturier observes that traumatic pericarditis is 
more frequent than is generally believed. Every year from 
ten to twelve cases occur, which in twenty years gives an 
average of 200 beasts which have either died or been killed 
on account of it. 
TUBERCULOUS DISEASE IN A COW. 
Under this head M. Fabry reports a case which is impor¬ 
tant, inasmuch as the symptoms resembled, more or less, 
those of pleuro-pneumonia. A young cow, which was fat¬ 
tening in a meadow, presented the following symptoms : the 
head extended; respiration quick, difficult, and oppressed; 
the expirations being short and grunting. Auscultation gave 
the vesicular murmur somewhat more increased than ordi- 
