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few practitioners appreciate the advantage of operating under 
narcosis. After severing the skin over the abscess, in the 
course of the larger vessels, the same is dissected back, and 
the tumor fastened by means of “ tenaculum ” forceps, which 
is much handier than inserting tape through the tumor. In 
avoiding the vessels one may be guided more by the sense of 
touch than sight. Hemorrhages in this locality must not be 
underestimated, since the sclerotic character of the tissue ren¬ 
ders ligation almost impossible. In order to remove any por¬ 
tions of the indurated tissue which may have escaped the 
operation, we generally insert a tuft of absorbent cotton when 
sewing the wound. In from fourteen days to four weeks 
the cavity of the wound is filled with granulating tissue and a 
cicatrix of sufficient age to permit the subject to work.— Ber¬ 
lin, Woch. 
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS. 
By the Same. 
At the last meeting of the Veterinary Association of Bran¬ 
denburg, Dr. Lehman offered for consideration a concretion 
of a stony nature which he had found in the stomach of a 
horse. This was of especial interest, not alone from its size, 
but from the rarity of the occurrence, only three such cases 
being on record. This body measured about three and one- 
half inches in transverse diameter, was of oval form, and pos¬ 
sessed a number of furrows upon its exterior which were in 
their resemblance not unlike the interior of the stomach. 
Eloir observed in a horse having died of colic, a rupture 
of the diaphragm and protrusion of the corresponding flexure 
of the colon into the thoracic cavity. 
At the veterinary school in Touloses a number of opera¬ 
tions have been performed under the influence of cocaine. 
The agent is applied hypodermically in a five per cent, solu¬ 
tion of hydrochloric acid. Minute quantities are sufficient, 
and from this fact the price should form no obstacle to the 
application of this anaesthetic. 
