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nary; the percussion, without being dull, was nevertheless 
not sonorous; the appetite was lost; the evacuations were 
scanty, soft, and fetid. There was also an uneasy shifting of 
the fore legs at times, indicative of entero-peritonitis. 
Those who saw the animal were of opinion, that it was a 
case of pleuro-pneumonia. M. Fabry was likewise uncertain 
as to the nature of the malady, but at the end of three days 
he was convinced of the non-existence of that disease, which 
would have been discovered by the absence of the respiratory 
murmur and the increased tubular respiration in one of the 
lobes of the lungs, consequent on hepatization of the same. 
The author concluded that there was no serious lesion of the 
lungs, seeing that the respiration, although somewhat 
increased, differed not from the normal action. The animal 
having been sacrificed, M. Fabry, on his arriving, found only 
the lungs and the liver left behind. The latter organ was of 
an extraordinary size, of a dark-red colour, and literally 
studded with tubercles in a crude state, varying in size from 
that of a walnut to a swan’s egg. The gall bladder was three 
times its natural size, and the bile was thick, of a dirty-green 
colour, and flocculent. The lungs presented a few tubercles, 
existing towards the upper border of these organs. M. Fabry 
also learnt that on opening the abdomen a quantity of bloody 
serum escaped. His deductions, from what he had seen 
and been informed, were, that the animal was affected with 
entero-peritonitis, and the state of the respiratory organs 
must be attributed to the pressure on the diaphragm, caused 
by the enormous size of the liver. 
DISEASE IN SWINE. 
M. Scheler reports that charbonous erysipelas has pre¬ 
vailed in a great number of pigs, but as the authorities had 
not interfered, he was unable to give any information on the 
extent of the epizootic. 
In the canton of Vilvorde many pigs had died of pleuro¬ 
pneumonia. The symptoms given b}^ M.Elson were decubitus 
on the belly, frequent plaintive grunting, painful and dry 
cough, loss of appetite, losing flesh rapidly, and death taking 
place in from twelve to fourteen days. 
