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fined and circumscribed, being warm, soft and painful. Fluctua¬ 
tion detectable at the originating point of the malady, and by 
incision of this portion of the anatomy, a considerable quantity of 
a foul-smelling fluid escaped, which contained cogaulated parti¬ 
cles. The collection reformed, but the dyspnoea seemed relieved 
by the operation. From the region of the cariniform cartilage, 
'he disease process spread upon the breast, abdomen, flanks and 
adder. Contemporaneously with this, the rectal temperature 
egistered io6° F., and the animal receded rapidly in flesh and 
condition until death ensued by asthenia. 
The autopsy exposed infiltration of the subcutaneous connect- 
ve tissue, the same, when seen in localities recently usurped by 
he disease, contained a yellowish coagulum, but in old established 
enters of the affection, this clotted substance was of a dirty, 
rayish color and offensive to the smell. 
The blood was not clotted ; the liver friable and the spleen 
ypertrophied. 
By a microscopical examination the cellular tissue appeared 
istended, and was occupied by a fibrous exudate’ containing 
'Us* B y double staining, it was possible to note the presence 
micrococci, which had arranged themselves in chains. 
The cocci were tinted by the Gram, and by the Gram-Weigert 
ethods. On ordinary soils, in the presence of air, they flourish, 
trying in a temperature from 64° to 98° F.; they are therefore 
robic. 
> ^ravenous, subcutaneous and intraperitoneal transplan- 
itions of the fresh cultures, when made in guinea pigs, were fol¬ 
ded by negative results.-—Z^, in Berl. Woe hens chrift. 
LEUCAEMIA IN THE HORSE. 
An eight-year-old horse, previously healthy, evinced sud- 
cn weakness and unsteadiness of gait, with a great disposition 
recline - P «lse regular, and numbering 68 ; respiration 30 and 
SDerficial; temperature 104° F, Mucous membranes tinted a 
y lowish gray. 
