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potato. After this body had been, with extreme difficulty, re¬ 
moved through the mouth, it transpired that it was a hairball 
of the size of an ordinary billiard ball. E. observed a similar 
condition of affairs in another cow. But he did not succeed in 
driving the tightly-wedged foreign body either down into the 
oesophagus or up through the mouth ; thereupon he resorted to 
oesophagotomy and removed a heavy hairball weighing 50.0 
(i 2}4 drachms). The animal was slaughtered the next day. 
That the hairballs regurgitated into the oesophagus from the 
rumen after repeated chewings is evident.—( Schweiz . Archiv . 
fur Thierhlk .) 
SPANISH REVIEW. 
Professional Chronicle. —The editorial staff of the 
Gazeta de Medicina Veterinaria de Madrid complains of the de¬ 
ficiency of education of the veterinary students who enter the 
schools of Spain. Notwithstanding the fact that more than one- 
third of the candidates are not admitted, those that enter are of 
a regrettable nullity. The authors of the article pity the pro¬ 
fessors of those schools, who, though taking so much trouble to 
teach their scholars the subjects necessary to the practice of 
their profession, will find that when they leave the schools they 
have benefited but little by their teachings, though the curri¬ 
culum is so deficient and incomplete. They beg the “ catedra- 
ticos ” of those schools (professors) to have the courage of Bour- 
gelat, who threw up his position before a too easy board of 
examiners, and refused to play any longer the part of u scientific 
charlatan,” and thus to escape the accusation of being perfect 
u vividores,” or “stragglers for life,” who look only after their 
own interest, their own welfare, independent of that of others. 
They ask the Minister of Agriculture and the General Director 
to watch the examinations and reform at once veterinary educa¬ 
tion. 
Contribution to the Study of the Diseases of the 
Spinal Cord \By Don Juan Natamoro AlbialJ —The author 
relates a case of acute hypersemia of the spinal cord, for which 
he recommended the following treatment: ist day—Bleeding at 
the jugular, 4 pounds ; stimulating friction over the loins (strong 
liniment); tracheal injection of 5 c.c. of solution of aconitine (5 
centigrammes in 50 grammes of water); another injection in the 
night. 2d day—No change in the symptoms. A purge of 60 
grammes of aloes, 15 of colocynth, and 0.30 centigrammes of 
