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woven, knotted at each end, and from each knot were dependent 
about 40 smaller strands 8 or 9 inches long and in form of a tas¬ 
sel ; weight 011 removal four pounds.”—( Ibid .) 
GERMAN REVIEW. 
By W. V. Bieser, D.V.S., New York City. 
Obstruction of the (Esophagus in Cattle. —The au¬ 
thor, on January 7th, saw an ox with the following symptoms : 
(Edema of the neck (phlegmon), respirations 14-15, pulse 60, 
temp. 38.2° C., prostration, refusal to take food. The tension 
of the threatening glistening oedema had already been relieved 
by free incision before my arrival. Next day the swelling had 
spread, respiration had fallen to 12, with expiratory dyspnoea, 
temperature had risen to 39.2° C., and the ox died on the even¬ 
ing of the third day of the illness. Autopsy .—The inflamma¬ 
tory oedema, which extended clear down to the chest entrance, 
consisted of a yellow serous, haemorrhagic infiltration of the 
subcutis. There were also catharral stomatitis and oesopha¬ 
gitis. In the oesophagus below the pharynx lay a half macerated 
raw potato. The perioesopliageal connective tissue was infil¬ 
trated with a serous and bloody exudate clear down to the ab¬ 
dominal cavity. There were pericarditis and fibrinous pleu¬ 
risy, 100 g. of a serous exudate in the pericardial sac ; the 
heart muscle was in a state of fatty degeneration. There were 
acute tracheo-bronchitis, hypersemia of the lungs, commencing 
peritonitis, swelling of the spleen, and acute gastro-enteritis. A 
well-marked case of malignant oedema, the site of infection be¬ 
ing the oesophagus and the cause of infection the macerated po¬ 
tato .—(BerL Thierarzt. Woe/h.) 
Marked Dilatation of Both Steno’s Ducts in a Cow. 
—In the slaughterhouse at Palermo, G., during the slaughter of 
a fat twelve-year-old cow, found at the lower border of the lower 
jaws, soft fluctuating swellings of the size of an egg, which dis¬ 
appeared upon pressure and reappeared when the pressure was 
removed. Autopsy showed that StenVs duct in its commence¬ 
ment at the parotid gland was thickened, but became dilated to 
cystic proportions in its facial region—(the size of an apple)— 
that it narrowed itself into a canal at its buccal extremity. 
Upon pressing the swelling saliva flowed from the buccal extrem¬ 
ity. According to the statement of the owner the cysts had 
been present since birth.—( Schweiz . Archiv fur Thierhlk .) 
