EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN PERIODICALS. 
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EXTRACTS FROM FRENCH JOURNALS. 
CARCINOMA OF THE HEART IN THE DOG. 
By M. Cadiot. 
A dog whose health had been apparently always good, 
was noticed to increase largely in bulk and to become dull 
and sleepy. His appetite became capricious, and he suffered 
alternately with constipation and diarrhoea. The abdomen 
was distended by a large collection of fluid ; the respiration 
was short and accelerated, and the pulse was small, varying 
betweent 90 and 120. The mucous membranes were pale and 
anaemic. Auscultations revealed an exaggerated respiratory 
murmur, and percussions gave a normal resonance. The 
movements of the heart were accelerated and percussion re¬ 
vealed a metallic sound, regular in rhythm but with now and 
then an intermittency of three or four cardiac contractions. 
Paracentesis was performed for the relief of the abdominal 
dropsy, and four liters of clear, limpid, yellowish fluid were 
extracted. The relief obtained was but temporary and the 
collection returned after a few days with an oedematous 
swelling in the region of the heart extending toward the 
lower part of the neck. A second puncture of the abdo¬ 
men was then performed but again with but temporary 
benefit, and alter a few days the patient died. At the post¬ 
mortem inspection two liters of fluid were found in the abdo¬ 
men, with also a small quantity in the pleural cavities, but 
the principal lesion was a tumor, about the size of two 
fists, developed at the base of the heart and surrounding the 
large vessels. It was covered by the pleura, and on its lower 
inferior portion by the pericardium. It was of a rosy color 
and of a dense and more or less fibrinous consistency, irregu¬ 
larly lobulated and without adhesions to the pulmonary lobes. 
Microscopic examination proved it to be. of a carcinoma¬ 
tous nature. 
A second case was also observed in a bitch six years old, 
I which had been sick for four months previous. When 
brought for treatment she was very thin and weak; the res- 
