TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 417 
development of the bones of the young animal it is intended 
to feed, with the other salts of food.— Sibson’s Every-day 
Chemistry. 
Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Journal des Veterinaires du Midi, March, 1861 . 
A NEEDLE FOUND IN THE LEFT VENTRICLE OF THE 
HEART OF A COW. 
By M. Coulon, V.S. 
The symptoms present were dulness, diminution of appe¬ 
tite and rumination, infiltration of fluid in the sternal re¬ 
gion, enlargement of the submaxillary glands, slight cough, 
pulse small and slow. The diagnosis was incipient cachexia, 
and the animal was treated accordingly. 
On the third day the enlargement of the glands had con¬ 
siderably increased, and, likewise, the infiltration at the ster¬ 
num ; the fore legs were placed wide apart; there was swelling 
of the axillary glands; the cough had increased, and there 
was a jerking of the flanks during respiration. Auscultation 
of the thorax only denoted an increase in the respiratory 
murmur; percussion caused pain on the left side; the sound 
on the same side was less sonorous. Complication of hydro¬ 
thorax was added to the diagnosis. 
There was very little change until the seventh day. She 
then refused all food, heaved at the flanks, constantly stood 
on the step of the manger, with the head and neck raised, the 
fore legs were placed still wider apart, the swelling had ex¬ 
tended under the abdomen, and on the tenth day she died. 
The autopsia, made directly after, showed the cellular tissue 
to be filled with clear, yellow serum; the abdominal cavity 
contained at least two pailfuls of a similar fluid ; the organs 
of this cavity presented nothing abnormal, with the excep¬ 
tion of the rumen, the contents of which were hard and dry. 
On the chest being opened, a large quantity of fluid escaped ; 
there was adhesion of the pleura on the left side, which being 
detached, a lump was discovered underneath, resembling a 
bag filled with liquid, and on cutting into it from four to 
