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treatment of this affection having failed, the animal was de¬ 
stroyed. At the post-mortem, the splanchnic organs, the serous 
membranes, the lymphatic ganglions of the abdomen, the lungs 
were full of tuberculous deposits. Some granular deposits are 
found on the meninges. The tuberous portion of the temporal 
bone hollowed was filled with serosity. The facial seemed 
atrophied. Examination of the granulations found in the mid¬ 
dle ear and its surroundings proved them to be of tuberculous 
nature. It was the pressure of those granulations upon the fa¬ 
cial nerve which had given rise to all the paralytic symptoms. 
Opening of the Rectum in the Vagina of a Sow.— 
This peculiar abnormality, recorded by Mr. Ch. Morot in the 
Journal of Lyon , refers to an animal which was killed at the 
age of fifteen months. She weighed 90 kilos (180 pounds). 
She had no anus—but in its place, under the tail, there was a 
vertical cutaneous slit, deep and 3 or four millimetres wide 
and about 2 centimetres long. The lower wall of the rectum 
presented behind a wide round opening, the termination of the 
digestive canal and whose circumference arrived to the superior 
commissure of the vulva. The posterior end of the rectum was 
bent downwards and opened directly on the superior wall of the 
vagina by the opening above mentioned. 
The animal did not seem to have suffered from its infirmity 
—she was fat and in good health. 
ENGLISH REVIEW. 
Obstetric Cases [By O. Trevor Williams']. —1st. An old 
mare, that has reared several foals, is served twice, and after 
proper time was thought in foal by the owner. One day, it 
was found that when she laid down a white milky fluid ran in 
a stream from the vagina ; when standing the flow would stop, 
to return as soon as she laid down. Examination of the vagina 
and uterus showed that the os was dilated wide enough to insert 
two fingers. Thorough washing with sublimate solution with 
stimulants and tonics relieved the animal in a week. The 
same author relates a case of hydramnios in a cow in which he 
removed (without exaggeration) some twenty gallons of fluid. 
As after the escape of this mass of fluid, the cow had difficulty 
to deliver, another examination showed that the foetus was af¬ 
fected with congenital ascites. Embryotomy was performed and 
the heifer recovered splendidly .—(Veterinary Record.) 
Effect of Morphia on a Bear [By Mr. W. Kirk ].— 
