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animal, the autopsy showed that while the right frontal sinus 
was healthy, the left contained a caseous mass, which when 
again cultivated, again gave birth to handsome colonies of the 
bacilli of glanders, the lungs, the liver and the spleen contain¬ 
ing a large number of tubercles. In the nervous centers the 
meninges were normal, while in the left lateral ventricle a 
small mass produced a series of smaller nodosites, formed of 
crystals of cholesterine, while under the microscope exposed 
a larger quantity of bacilli. The blood of the same subject 
when examined with the microscope exhibited the specific 
bacilli of glanders. 
In a second autopsy, made upon an animal which had suf¬ 
fered with pulmonary glanders, the lungs were filled with tu¬ 
bercles. In the brain two tumors were found, one in each of 
the lateral ventricles, that on the right side being as large as 
a bean and that on the left about the size of an egg. Choles¬ 
terine and glanderous bacilli constituted the microscopic struc¬ 
ture of these neoplasms. 
In a third case, the tumor was found in the lateral ventri¬ 
cle, in the shape of an irregular mass, of the size of a pea. 
It was soft and friable, and pressure caused an oozing of pus 
and blood. It was a glanderous tumor in the process of dis¬ 
integration, as proved by examination with the microscope.— 
II Moderno Zooiatio. 
SUBCUTANEOUS FIRING IN THE TREATMENT OF SPAVIN. 
By M. Lorenzo Bottazzi. 
The author describes his method of procedure as follows : 
The animal is thrown on the side of the diseased leg, the hair 
being cut short over the region, and the parts thoroughly 
cleansed with an aseptic wash. An incision is then made, four 
or five centimeter s in length, in the direction of the axis of the 
hock, upon the middle of the tumor, the edges of the wound 
being kept apart with blunt hooks, and the subcutaneous tissue 
is dissected, in order to expose the diseased bone. Then one, 
two or three points of firing are applied upon the exostosis, 
not in a straight line, but, as more effective, on triangular lines, 
