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patients. The local application employed was an ointment 
in which sulphur was the principal ingredient. [As the 
existence of acari is not mentioned, doubts mav be enter- 
tained as to its being true mange, but only a malignant skin 
disease.] 
A CASE OE TUBERCULOUS DISEASE OE THE LIVER, 
COMPLICATED WITH PHTHISIS. 
By M. Clavel, V.S., a Villefranelie-de-Belves. 
The author was summoned to attend an ox, which, accord¬ 
ing to information, did not feed as usual, and was also covered 
with lice, which it was stated, had resisted all local appli¬ 
cations. On examining the animal, he found him in a 
very debilitated state, bordering on marasmus; the coat was 
staring, skin adherent to the ribs, pain w r as evinced on press¬ 
ing the spine, the ganglions of the groin were considerably 
enlarged, the mouth vras inflamed, the alvine evacuations 
were somewhat harder than natural; but all the other func¬ 
tions were normal. 
The enlarged ganglions, the sensibility of the vertebral 
column, with the emaciated state of the animal, led the 
author to suspect that he was suffering from phthisis; but 
the exploration of the chest, both by auscultation and per¬ 
cussion, indicated nothing abnormal. Not being able to 
form a satisfactory diagnosis, M. Clavel prescribed tonic 
treatment in accordance with the symptoms. Local appli¬ 
cations were likewise made to the skin, which soon de¬ 
stroyed the lice. Under this treatment the appetite increased, 
and there was a slight improvement otherwise; but this 
continued only for a short time, as the patient died suddenly 
not long after. 
On the autopsia, the intestines were found to be covered 
with small tubercles; the mesenteric glands were also tuber- 
culated. These tubercles varied in size from that of a wal¬ 
nut to an egg. Having removed the intestines, the author 
found the liver of enormous size, its weight being 31£ kil. 
(above sixty pounds). On making an incision into it, its 
parenchyma was found to be literally studded with tubercles; 
of these, the largest number were in a state of suppuration, 
forming large cavities: in a word, nearly the whole of the 
liver was transformed into pus. The biliary vesicle was con¬ 
tracted and atrophied, and only contained a small quantity 
of bile. The lungs were healthy, with the exception of one 
