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walk with an arched back and knuckling at the fetlocks, though 
showing at first no excessive flexibility of the back or loins, but 
on the contrary at a later period, stiffening into an intense rigidity. 
After a few days, the animal would bring her legs together as if 
affected with laminitis of the fore feet, those which were more 
affected getting up with difficulty, and with a peculiar movement, 
first elevating the hind quarter, and remaining in that partly 
upright posture for a period varying from a few minutes to half 
an hour, before completing the rising movement. The gait in 
walking was hesitating and staggering, and at times a cracking of 
the joints was heard, while some one or other of the muscular 
masses became the seat of tremblings or spasmodic contractions. 
The animal was more or less lame, and there was a peculiar stiff¬ 
ness of one or more of the extremities; none of the great func¬ 
tions seemed to be disturbed; none of the animals died. The 
treatment was preventive and curative. The first consisted in 
warm woollen blankets immediately after delivery, with thick, 
clean bedding and warm drinks, and protection from exposure. 
The second, with the same hygiene, included cod liver oil, 250 
grammes, (about 8 ounces) a day in two doses, and stimulating 
fiictions over all the joints of the extremities .—Annales de 
Bruxelles. 
CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF ANEURISMAL TUMORS. 
By Me. Ed. Godfrin. 
This is the record of the fatal termination of two cases of 
aneurisms of the posterior aorta in two colts, .one two and a half 
years old, the other eighteen months. The diagnosis was made 
during life by rectal examination, which enabled the author to de¬ 
tect in each of the cases an indolent tumor, about the size of a 
man’s fist, situated in the sub-lumbar region, in front of the 
right kidney. In both cases the pulsation was readily detected. 
An unfavorable prognosis was confirmed by the sudden death of 
both animals, which took place a few days afterwards. At the 
post-mortem the abdomen was found to be filled by a large bloody 
collusion, due to the rupture of the aortic aneurism.— Ibid. 
