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patients a death of 40 (not diagnosed during life). Fohner also 
used tuberculin as a diagnostic means. This substance proved 
of great worth when applied in the dog, although the objection 
of uncertainty is here again urged against it. 
Single instances of consumptive dogs failed to respond to the 
injection, but as a rule, when the effect was secured it came 
more precipitate than in bovidm. In one case the temperature 
mounted from ioi° to 103° F.; post-mortem exposed phthisis, 
lesions and bacilli. 
In another animal the effect was first apparent after the lapse 
of six hours, and then was indicated by an increase of only i° F., 
which subsided two hours later. 
Here tuberculosis was discovered and also bacilli; the dose 
each time was 0.05 grammes with 3 ss of a y 2 % carbolic solu¬ 
tion.— Monatschrif. f Thierheilk Bd. x. 
OPERATION FOR CHAMPIGNON. 
A ten-year-old gelding, which had been castrated at six 
years, had exhibited symptoms of scirrhous cord for one year. 
The patient ambulated with a characteristic habit of spreading 
the posterior limbs, going lame in the left one and finally be¬ 
coming unable to move. Robust health prevailed previous to 
this, and even now the constitution did not seem influenced by 
the drain of suppurative products from the canal. 
Six grains of morphia sulph. were inhibited, as well as three 
and a half ounces of chloroform given as an inhalation, requir- 
ing eight minutes; during the operation the same quantity of the 
anaesthetic was administered by dropping slowly on a tense 
towel held over the nostrils. 
The left spermatic cord was entered by four tracts, which 
ultimately merged into two, one of which directed its course 
anterior to the penis, and the other to the inguinal canal. The 
former was dissected from the cavernous tissue of the sextual 
organ, and the latter, when secured as high as the external in¬ 
guinal ring, was ligated with an elastic bandage; the circumfer¬ 
ence of the thickened cord at this point was six inches. The 
