EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN PERIODICALS. 
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UMBILICAL HERNIA OF THE STOMACH. 
In a six-weeks-old sinsmenthaler calf a swelling was notic- 
able in the vicinity of the umbilicus; this had been increasing 
in size for fourteen consecutive days. After permitting the 
formation to progress at a slower rate for six weeks longer 
the owner sent for P. The health of the patient had by this 
time become the worse for non-attention ; the hernial sac 
measured six inches in breadth and the same in length. Upon 
the most depending portion of the protrusion we could dis¬ 
cern a few black and red spots surrounding an irregular rent 
of foramen through which food masses were escaping. The 
animal was slaughtered in order to preserve the flesh for eat¬ 
ing, purposes. 
The autopsy revealed a perforation of the abomasum four 
nches in length; the lips of the same had become adhesive 
.o the abdominal walls so that a natural fistula remained. 
Tuberculosis of the omentum and peritoneum also existed. 
P. supposes the cause to have been a traumatic one; he 
tdvances the theory that the fourth stomach had been pierced 
)y a foreign body, and that pressure of the contents of this 
;>rgan upon underlying the abdominal walls caused bulging 
■ nd ultimate gangrene of t he sam e.—Badische Th. Mittheilungen. 
ALOPECIA IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
Nude horses have, in several instances, been exhibited as 
curiosity. As a disease alopecia is rather rarely met, and 
ccurs in four varieties. The first form, alopecia congenita , is 
xceptionally seen in our animals ; the author has recorded a 
ase in which the dam was bereft of the total hirsute cover- 
lg, which peculiarity was transmitted to the offspring. 
Hering communicates that in 1864 at a meeting of natu- 
ilists in Italy, there was presented a hairless calf, coming 
•om healthy and even heavily-coated parents. A later inves- 
gation of the dermis showed the presence of small hair- 
ulbs, papilli and sebaceous glands immaturely developed ; 
ther offspring of the same parents were anatomically perfect, 
-osenkranz and Nill each report two cases in bovidse. 
