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was extracted from the walls of the reticulum, by incision of the 
flank and entrance through the rumen and made a partial recov¬ 
ery. . . Stimulated by this partial success, a similar operation 
was performed on another cow, and a piece of wire, held partly by 
the rumen and having entered the chest through the diaphragm, 
was extracted. Several complications followed and the cow 
died. . . Two fatal cases, where large abscesses were found at post¬ 
mortem between the pericardium and the diaphragm in one and on 
the diaphragm of the other.-. These were undoubtedly of traumatic 
origin. . . The sole of a shoe with large nails was found in the 
reticulum of a cow that died with paraplegia. . . In another 
cow at post-mortem a rupture of the reticulum with a diaphrag¬ 
matic abscess containing two stones, one as large as an 
egg, the other as big as a nut. . . A long knitting-needle was 
lodged in the pericardium, which it had entered on the right side 
of the median line. . . A four-year-old cow was destroyed and 
showed a sharp point lodged in the diaphragm. . . A large hair¬ 
pin, with one point in the pericardium and the other in the ret¬ 
iculum was extracted by operation through the flank and rumen, 
the animal recovering. . . A lead spoon was found in the reti¬ 
culum of another cow that had died. . . Four other cases of 
sewing needles were found at post-mortem in the heart and in the 
lung. . . Then another case where a piece of wire was extracted 
from the reticulum by opening of the rumen. . . From this series 
the author comes to the conclusion that gastrotomy is the only 
practical surgical operation likely to benefit individuals in which 
a positive diagnosis has been established.— (Rec. de Med. Vet.) 
Chloride of Barium in the Treatment of Colics 
\By M. Cadiot\. — After speaking of the successes which he has 
obtained in the treatment of colics with this compound, the 
author reads the reports that he has received from one of his 
confreres where serious fatal accidents followed its administra¬ 
tion. While appreciating the value of the cases recorded by 
Dickerhoff, the conclusions of the author are rather unfavorable 
to the use of this compound.— (Ibid.) 
The Hypodermic Injections of Veratrine in the Treat¬ 
ment of Mammitis |By M. Detchevers \.—The author calls 
the attention of practitioners to the good effects of veratrine in 
the treatment of mammitis in cows. In seven or eight cases he 
has treated, the general fever which had reached 104° subsided 
in four hours, and the hard condition of the swelling of the ud¬ 
der diminished gradually, to subside entirely without leaving 
any alteration in the milk secretion after two or three days. He 
