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in respiration ; the inspiration was performed at twice or 
double time, but it was followed by a free expiration; there 
■was no difficulty in deglutition. The author diagnosed an 
affection of the lungs, probably of a chronic nature. The 
animal died in about a month after, and on the post-mortem 
examination the abdominal organs were all found healthy, 
and in the chest nothing particular was observed, but on de¬ 
taching the lungs a large quantity of blood escaped from the 
aorta, which, instead of being scarlet, as arterial blood should 
be, was black, like venous blood; the lungs were gorged with 
blood, but presented no other alteration; the heart appeared 
somewhat larger in size than natural, the left auricular ventri¬ 
cular orifice was larger than the right, and in the place of the 
mitral valve there existed a small, yellow body, about the size 
of a hazel nut; in shape it resembled a strawberry, and had a 
certain degree of hardness; on pressing it between the fingers 
for a little while, a slight smell of sulphur was emitted. This 
body was composed of small granulations, the fragments of 
which resembled those obtained by scraping a lump of sulphur; 
the orifice was nearly obliterated by this body. There was also 
some structural alteration in other parts of the ventricle, 
appertaining more or less to endocarditis. 
A CASE OE URETERITIS IN A CALF EIGHT MONTHS OLD. 
By M. Guimberteau, V.S., St. Antoine, Dordogne. 
The symptoms were dulness, carrying the head low, pulse 
small and accelerated, the respiration increased, the mucous 
membranes pale, the beating of the heart strong; but that 
which was the most striking was the large size of the abdomen. 
The existence of fluid in it was detected both by percussion 
and auscultation. The diagnosis was hydrops abdominis . The 
animal was consequently killed in the presence of the author, 
when, on opening the abdomen, not a drop of fluid escaped, 
to his great astonishment, and he thought he had made a 
mistake in his diagnosis, but he soon perceived a voluminous 
organ to exist, and through the distended and thinned mem¬ 
brane could be seen a transparent liquid. On examining 
this closely, he found it to be a distended ureter; and on 
measuring the liquid contained in this large reservoir, he 
found fifty litres, which, on examination, proved to be urine. 
The cause of this extraordinary lesion was an obstruction of 
the ureter at its entrance into the bladder. 
