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were found to be affected with well marked oedematous swell¬ 
ings, the outside of both joints being the parts involved. 
When made to move, the act was performed with difficulty, 
the fetlocks appearing to be anchylosed, and the digital regions 
being turned inwards. Manipulation of the parts showed a 
change in the relations of the bones, the phalanges being so 
turned inwards as to form an angle with the cannon bone, 
the opening being towards the median line, the displacement 
of the articular surfaces being accompanied with a well- 
marked crepitant sound. Notwithstanding a severe blister 
over the outside of the joints, the patient grew worse, until, 
in consequence of her efforts in getting up, the skin became 
ulcerated and torn, until the lower extremities of the metatar¬ 
sal bones protruded, and the digital region was bent more 
and more inwards, until it rested on the entire length of its 
external surface. The animal was destroyed, and at the post¬ 
mortem it was discovered that the left joint, besides the rup¬ 
ture of both lateral ligaments, had become the seat of exten¬ 
sive lesions of acute arthritis. The same conditions were 
present on the right side, but the lesions were less extensive. 
Rec. de Med. Vet. 
[We remember another case, in an animal in which a lesion 
of the same nature was present, with a corresponding diag¬ 
nosis, in connection with a severe lameness of the near hind 
leg. The animal was kept under treatment for a very long 
time, with a resort to slings, splints, blisters, etc., which all 
failed to produce any beneficial effects, the ' destruction of 
the animal becoming finally necessary.— Ed.] 
TRANSMISSION OF TUBERCULOSIS FROM MOTHER TO FCETUS. 
By Peof. Csokoe. 
A preparation was exhibited by the author before the 
Medical Society of Vienna, of an anatomical and microscopic 
preparation, showing, without doubt, the transmission of tu¬ 
berculosis from mother to foetus. The case was that of a 
pregnant cow, suffering with pulmonarv tuberculosis, and 
having well-marked pleural, pericardial and peritoneal com- 
