EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN PAPERS. 
section offered a grayish surface streaked with reddish lines. 
At the apex of the caecum a cyanotic formation as large as a 
goose egg. Lining membrane of stomach normal. Interior of 
the small intestine opaque and gray-red; same of colon and 
caecum exhibited haemorrhagic infiltrations with several erro- 
sions of considerable extent. 
The liver weighed 84 pounds, 8 inches in thickness and 40 
inches broad; reddish brown and friable; also the same peculiar 
strips of coloring observed in the lymph glands. 
In the hepatic parenchyma innumerable tumors as large as a 
mustard seed. Lobes of the organ not distinguishable, and 
within its substance several cavities surrounded by dark red 
walls. Spleen swollen and measuring 20 inches in length, 16 
in bieadth and 2 in thickness; of a gray-blue color externally, 
with a yielding, not to say mushy interior. Malpighian bodies 
enlarged to the diameter of a pea. 
Both kidneys hypertrophied and soft, with light yellow lines 
running from the papillae to periphery. Contents of the infund¬ 
ibulum and pelvis of the organs slimy and containing pus. 
Bronchial and laryngeal glands augmented.— Ztschr. f. Vet. 
Kunde 1. 
TUBERCULOSIS OF THE PENIS. 
A number of nodular tumors, being situated on the penis of 
a bull, rendering the animal useless for propagating purposes, it 
was decided to castrate in order to further utilize the beast for 
draught purposes. Not long after this operation the same was 
slaughtered, and the lower portion of the penis — that part 
formerly containing the tumors—sent to the veterinary university 
in Dresden. Approximately 10 inches removed from the ure¬ 
thral opening two nodules were situated, which were about the 
size of a hazlenut. These were imbedded in the parenchyma of 
the organ. 
Transverse section of these revealed a structure of cancella¬ 
ted tissue, which contained as its center a crumbling mass of 
whitish suppurative debris. About three inches anterior to the 
