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piration was difficult and plaintive; percussion revealed a 
dullness on both sides, and auscultations gave crepitant rales; 
the beatings of the heart were accelerated and strong. There 
was abundant ascites, the appetite was fair, and as in the pre¬ 
vious case, slight lancocythosis. She was subjected to the 
same treatment, and the puncture was followed by such a 
degree of improvement that the owner took her away, but on 
reaching home she was taken with syncope and died. 
At the post mortem, very little fluid was found in the ab- 
dombn, but the liver was very much enlarged, weighing two 
and a half pounds, and being filled with cancerous centers of 
various sizes, some having a whitish and others a pale greyish 
color. The lungs, the kidneys and the mesentery were also 
full of very small, greyish neoplastic deposits, but none were 
found in the intestines. The heart was the seat of a very in¬ 
teresting lesion. The pericardium was adhered to it, and 
when torn from it the surface of the organ was found to be 
roughened by the presence of a great number of small tumors. 
Its general color was greyish and in some places it showed 
ecchymotic spots, and in others yellowish centers. The ven¬ 
tricles, when incised and the internal surface exposed, were 
seen to be also covered with the same neoplasms, and the 
mitral valve also had several. The histology of the pulmon¬ 
ary and cardiac tumors proved the case to be one of general¬ 
ized encephalon cancer. — Recueil de Med. Vet. 
INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTIONS DUE TO AN OVARIAN CYST WEIGH¬ 
ING OVER TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS. 
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By M. Debrade, 
A mare aged 12 years was attacked with violent colics and 
though she was well taken care of and well fed, had for some 
time lost flesh, become disinclined to work and had lost 
her usual spirit. She had three times recently suffered from 
attacks of colic. Supposing her case to be one of simple in¬ 
digestion, she received the treatment usual in such cases, but 
without benefit and continued to get worse, suffering great 
pain, her colics being very violent. At such times she would 
