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EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
ATHEROMATOUS C¥ST OF THE SEPTUM NASI. 
By Mr. Scharenberger. 
This case is interesting on account of the long treatment 
which is required to obtain a recovery. The animal in ques¬ 
tion has on the left side of the septum, at about an inch from 
the superior border and back of the nasal cartilages, a cyst as 
big as a hazel nut, spheroidal, smooth, painless and having 
on its center a small opening from which runs a brownish 
colloid matter. On pressure, the fingers receive the sensation 
of a kind of crepitation, which indicates that in the tumor 
there are hard, irregular, granular little masses, like small 
gravel. 
The treatment lasted nearly four months. First, free in¬ 
cision of the cyst and dressing with solution of boric acid was 
carried out, but without results. The same dischaige and 
the formation of the same little yellowish irregular crystals 
continuing, with increase in the dimensions of the cyst. 
Then the treatment was modified by the application of a 
piece of cotton saturated with tincture of iodine, pressed for 
several minutes in the cavity of the neoplasm. No change. 
It was then that it was decided to modify the inflammatory 
process and bring it to a more acute condition. This was 
obtained by the removal from the cyst cavity of all cretaceous 
substances and the cauterization with the red iron of the eiv 
tire areolar structure which lined the cyst. By this treat¬ 
ment a new repairing was soon established, granulations of 
a healthy nature sprung out, being kept under control with 
nitrate of silver, and the cicatrix was completed with a slight 
induration of the nasal membrane where the primitive cyst 
existed.— Ibid. 
FOREIGN BODIES IN THE (ESOPHAGUS OF SWINE. 
By M. P. Moulis. 
After recording the general symptoms presented by swine 
whose oesophagus contains a foreign body that cannot be 
vomited by the animal, and insisting upon the intelligent de¬ 
sire and manner with which the animal takes a large quantity 
of water with wide laps so as to wash his organ, which he 
