584? POINTED METALLIC BODIES SWALLOWED WITH POOD. 
“ A case in which similar appearances were discovered, but 
in which the foreign body had disappeared, is related by 
Brennwald.— Ibid. 1850, p. 62. 
<c In a like case, Mauer found a piece of iron wire in the 
wall of the left ventricle.— Ibid. p. 25. 
“ Von Sindenberg gives a case of the cow in which a plank- 
nail, four inches long, surrounded by pus, was found to 
transfix the reticulum, diaphragm, and heart, which were 
agglutinated by lymph.— Magazin fur die gesammte Thierheil- 
kunde. Herausgegeben von Dr. E. F. Gurlt, and Dr. C. H. 
Hertwig. Berlin, p. 190. 
(i Von Eckerdorf cites a case in which the recticulum and 
diaphragm were found transfixed by half a roofing nail (Schin- 
delnagel). Ibid. p. 417. 
“ Korber found a needle penetrating the adherent pericar¬ 
dium and left side of the heart of a cow.— Ibid. 1850, p. S98. 
u In the same journal (1847, p. 147), Schole describes three 
analogous cases. In the first the reticulum was adherent 
to the diaphragm, through which there was a small fistulous 
opening. The foreign body was not discovered, having pro¬ 
bably again found its way into the second stomach. In the 
second, the pericardium was enormously distended, and a 
hair-pin transfixed the heart, pericardium, and reticulum. In 
the third, a sewing-needle was found transfixing the reticulum 
and diaphragm, injuring the pericardium at its apex. 
“ Zimmerman observed three cases of traumatic disease of 
the heart as the result of penetration of its walls by sharp 
bodies.— Thierarztliche Zeitung. Herausgegeben von den 
Lehren der grossherz. Badishen Thierarzneischule Red. C. 
A. Fuchs. 4. Jahrgang, Carlsruhe, p. 21. 
“ Werner gives a case in which a table-knife, seven and a 
half inches in length, passed from the reticulum to the left 
ventricle of the heart, penetrating its substance to the depth 
of two lines.— Centralarchiv fur die gesammte Veterindrmedicin 
und die Veter indr dr ztlichen Standes-und Vereinsangelegenheiten. 
Herausgegeben von Dr. J. M. Kreutzer, Prof, in Munchen, 
1848, p. 165. 
“ Franzisci relates a case of emphysema extending over the 
whole body from a ramrod, fourteen inches long, having 
passed through the diaphragm, and wounded the under 
surface of the left lung and thoracic walls.— Thierdrztliches 
IVochenblatt , redigirt von Niklas, Landgerichtsthierarzte im 
Neu-CJlm. 1. Jahrgang, 1849, p. 29. 
Rainard says that needles frequently pass from the oeso¬ 
phagus to the heart, in some cases sticking in the substance 
of the heart, and in others remaining free in the pericardium. 
