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only exceptionally seen. The disease in human beings is con¬ 
sidered as a neurosis of the sympathetic nerve, especially as far 
as the goitre ms concerned. The animal was destroyed with 
c oroform Autopsy : Brain was markedly anaemic ; attached 
to the markedly enlarged thyroid were three accessory glands ; 
the right side of the heart was decidedly dilated.— (Berl Thier- 
arzt Woch.) v 
i A w EW , FlNU P Leuc^mic Blood. —In a typical case of 
lymphatic leucaemia M. found in the plasma of the lymphocytes 
small colorless bodies, of well defined contour, and varied shape 
now oval now round, now puckered, showing amoeboid move¬ 
ments. Upon warming the slide these amoeboid movements 
^ 1S / n f variations in shape were more rapid and more marked. 
e had thus far failed to discover these particular bodies in all 
other cases of lymphatic leucaemia, in freshly extirpated lymph 
g ands of patients suffering from leucaemia, also in glands of 
oxen and cats suffering from leucocythaemia. This discover!- 
means, therefore, that there is either a degeneration of the cells 
or protozoan present. A. also recommends chinin here as beiim 
effective, solut. Fowlern, as is too often the case in leucaemia 
being powerless to effect any result.— {Berl. Thierarzt Woch. 1 ’ 
Concerning the Phagocytic Power of the Brood of 
the New Born— In the study of immunization, from no 
source as yet has the blood of the newly born been brought into 
requisition. The author has of late years studied such blood 
with special reference to its immunity-giving powers. He 
studied the blood of 82 newly born and in 68 cases, viz., 83 per 
cent., found such blood more or less protective against diphthe¬ 
ritic infection ; he found in 14 cases only, viz., 17 per cent, 
^immunity-giving corpuscles (phagocytes).—( 7 ?«V. Thierarzt 
Shoulder Lameness in a Horse.—A n army horse 
favored the off fore leg. Treated as shoulder lameness, he failed 
to improve. The author putting his hand between the chest 
and elbow-joint found in about the middle of the humerus a 
hard, painless, movable mass of the size of an eo-cr. This was 
removed and the lameness disappeared. The author declares 
that the swelling by motion of the limb, exerted pressure on the 
radial nerve which in time led to disturbance in locomotion— 
(■jehweiz. Archtv. fur Thierhlk .) 
Hairballs in the CEsophagus of Cows—S. discovered 
after a careful examination of a markedly flatulent cow, a round 
body in the upper part of the oesophagus which he took for a 
