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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
CHRONIC TYMPANITIS, RESULTING FROM HYPERTROPHY OF 
THE PECTORAL LYMPHATIC GLANDS. 
By M. J. Dakieux. 
This is the record of a cow w T hich was suddenly attacked with 
tympanitis after her morning meal. The first attack was re¬ 
lieved by puncture of the rumen with a fine trocar and the ad¬ 
ministration of 400 grammes of sulphate of soda given in three 
doses. The animal had already had an ounce of ether in a pint 
of alcoholic mixture. She did well for a few days, during which 
she calved, her delivery being accomplished without difficulty. 
She was, however, again attacked in the same manner, and was 
again relieved by low diet with doses of nux vomica. This giv¬ 
ing but little relief, a resort to permanent rumenotomy became 
necessary, the canula of the trocar being left in place for six 
days. Still the relief was only temporary, and the general con¬ 
dition of the patient began to suffer. Rumination became irreg¬ 
ular, the appetite diminished, and the milk was reduced in quanti¬ 
ty, and still the most careful and repeated examinations of the 
patient failed to develop any indications of disease sufficient to 
explain the difficulty. The animal was ultimately destroyed. An 
abscess was found in the abdomen at the point of the punctures 
previously made with the trochar. All the abdominal organs 
were healthy except a lymphatic gland of the liver, which had 
become much enlarged. In the chest the pectoral ganglions were 
very large, two of them especially which surround the oespohagus 
and trachea. The bronchial and mediastinal glands also were hy¬ 
pertrophied, and a section of these showed them to be the seat 
of calcareous deposits. Rone of them contained pus. The lungs 
present contained about twenty tuberculous deposits of various 
size.— Ibid. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
NEW JERSEY STATE VETERINARY SOCIETY. 
The New Jersey State Veterinary Society held its regular meeting at the 
Hamilton House, Paterson, New Jersey, on Thursday, February 7th, 1889, at 
2 P. M. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were adopted as read. 
The Treasurer’s report was also accepted. 
