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right cord was considerably smaller and easily extirpated by 
shelling, so to speak, from its adjacent envelopes. 
The operation consumed two hours, but without the loss of 
much blood. The animal stood upon its feet at the termination 
of the same, and was led into the stable. The respiration at 
this moment was accelerated and somewhat labored, horse 
slightly uneasy. In an hour the breathing became more a 
dyspnoea, an abundant sweat transuded, patient succumbed. 
The post-mortem, undertaken immediately, exposed the left 
side of the heart intensely filled. In the splenic vein a yellow, 
brittle and dry thrombus; these were also found in the various 
veins of the portal system. 
From the fact that no vertebrae fracture or excessive haemor¬ 
rhage took place at the time of the operation, the death was 
supposed to be superinduced by the chloroform.— D. Th. Woch- 
enschrift. 
LEUCOCYTHiEMIA IN EQUID/E. 
A ten-year-old horse, previously healthy, evidenced sudden 
weakness and unsteadiness of gait, with a great disposition to 
assume the recumbent position. 
Pulse regular and 68 per minute; respiration superficial, 
numbering 30; temperature 104° F.; mucous membranes tinted 
a yellowish grey. The succeeding day these symptoms better 
marked and more intense. Third day the same still more pro¬ 
nounced with great weakness, anaemia of visible membranes and 
oedema along the median line extending from the pectoralis to 
the gracilli muscles. Patient succumbed on this date. 
Upon examination about fifteen quarts of a reddish yellow 
fluid were obtained from the abdominal cavity. The liver, 
enormously hypertrophied, occupied both the right and left hypo- 
chondiac regions. Lymphatic glands along the colon and 
caecum enlarged to ten times their normal dimensions. In 
the folds of the mesentery, globular reddish gray nodules in 
abundance. 
These augmented glands were soft, and upon transverse 
