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in depth and in width towards the front, where it involved half 
of the thickness of the bulb. Sections through the cerebral 
substance surrounding the fourth ventricle showed a reddish 
injection, more marked in some parts than in others. All 
other parts of the encephalon were perfect —Journal of Zo- 
otechnie. 
A CASE OF THORACIC ECTOPIA. 
By M. Louis Blano. 
The fact that thoracic hernia is not uncommonly found at 
post-mortem inspections, is a familiar one to practical pathol¬ 
ogists, and whether these are ante or post-mortem, is a point 
of great interest to the practitioner. The following will add 
to the list of cases already on record. 
An old horse was destroyed for anatomical purposes, no 
care having been taken to ascertain what his condition had 
been during life. Upon opening the abdomen, abnormal ap¬ 
pearances became at once evident, in the disposition of the 
large colon. Upon removing the circumvolutions of the 
small intestines,while the first and the fourth portions of the 
large colon were exposed, both of the two central portions 
had disappeared. There were, however, extensive adhesions 
of these portions to the posterior face of the diaphragm. 
On opening the thorax, the other two portions were found in 
that cavity, presenting in their disposition a pecular twisted 
arrangement around the posterior vena cava. 
The opening of the diaphragm through which the hernia 
took place occupied the whole upper portion on the right of 
the aponeurotic center, being bounded inwardly and down¬ 
wardly by the pillars of the muscle and the vena cava, and 
outwardly and upwardly by the muscular portion of the dia¬ 
phragm. It measured between eight and ten inches in its 
great axis. The edges were regular, smooth and rounded, 
and showed that the muscular and tendinous fibres were not 
torn or lacerated, but had deviated from their direction, in 
such a manner as to bind the borders of the hernial opening. 
This condition was evidently of old standing, probably 
congenital. The animal affected with it had borne it for at 
