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by means of a surcingle. Directions were left to have the snow 
renewed as often as was necessary, and this treatment was con¬ 
tinued for twenty-four hours. The next day the hernia had dis¬ 
appeared, and it did not return, and the animal resumed his work 
on the twentieth dav. 
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The other two cases were sprains of the fetlock, treated by a 
somewhat similar method. In both cases the animals made a 
recovery in from twelve to fifteen days—a rapid cure for such 
lesions—though one of them became lame again and had to be 
submitted to more severe treatment.— Ibid. 
NEUROMATOUS DIATHESIS IN A COW. 
By Me. Ch. Morot. 
This is an exceptional record of a comparatively uncommon 
form of disease. The cow which was the subject of this record 
was an animal about fifteen years old, in good condition of flesh 
and fat, rating as about a second quality of butcher’s meat. After 
being killed an examination of her fore parts revealed the pres¬ 
ence of 1,325 neuromatous growths of various sizes, and, in fact, 
there were undoubtedly a great many more, which were not and 
could not be counted without injuring the appearance of the meat 
for the market. Of these neuromas 134 were found at the base 
of the heart, on the surfaces of the large vascular trunks and of 
the auricles, and 22 were situated around the larynx and in the 
neighborhood of the base of the tongue. Upon the various nerv¬ 
ous branches around the brachial plexuses there were 358 tumors 
of various dimensions, from the size of a millet seed to that of a 
large almond. In the thoracic cavity some 811 were counted, 
situated between the ribs, under the pleura, or outside the chest, 
in the anterior part of the ilio-spinalis muscle. 
The interest of this case is due not only to the enormous 
quantity of the neoplasms found, but also to the rarity of the 
affection, which is one the records of which are exceedingly un¬ 
common.— Ibid. 
