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of morphine and chloroform, or better, morphine and ether. 
Chloroformization remains what it has always been, a quick 
and sure, but specially dangerous method, if not used with 
the greatest precaution; and that whatever mode of anaesthesia 
be used it is always dangerous in patients affected with heart 
or lung diseases.— Jour, of Zootech. 
CYST ADHERENT TO THE CESOPHAGUS. 
By Mr. Adenot. 
A steer which has for several years been used at draught 
work and is comparatively well kept, on account of the heavy 
task made upon him, is suddenly taken with tympanitis, 
which lasting for some time has to be relieved by the admin¬ 
istration of a good purgative. The animal appears better, 
and when the winter season arrives he is left in the stable at 
rest with fair feeding, but instead of improving, he gets 
worse; another dose of physic brings him back to apparent 
health, when again the tympanitis returns with more sever¬ 
ity ; he is then tapped with trocar, and with repeated alter¬ 
nations of improvement and relapse he is destroyed for the 
butcher. 
At the autopsy, every organ, thoraciq or abdominal, is in 
perfect normal condition, but on looking toward the base of 
the heart, a large pouch is observed, adherent to the oesopha¬ 
gus, but free from any communication with it. This sac 
does not contain pus, but a great quantity of yellow citrine 
fluid of cystic nature, in the midst of which floats a number 
of solid disks of various dimensions.— Ibid. 
BELGIAN REVIEW. 
MESENTERIC ABSCESSES IN STRANGLES. 
By Mr. Verlinde. 
Considering the scarcity of literature on the subject, the 
author, after having searched in the various works on 
strangles, Bouley, Zundel, Champetier and others, and hav- 
