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above tumors the penis suddenly enlarged, being at the prepuce 
six inches in circumference. 
Careful dissection exposed this expansion to be due to nu¬ 
merous hard bodies occupying the intima of the corpus caverno- 
sum. Also numbers of the same nodules beneath the skin 
constituting the prepuce. Membrane of urethra normal in 
appearance; the presence of bacilli could not be proven by the 
Zihle-Gabbet method. Upon a thin section, obtained from the 
nodules themselves, great numbers of the bacilli could be de¬ 
tected. Subjected the same to the Koch-Ehrlich treatment. 
From the character and extent of the infection it is highly 
probable that these organisms had been primarily acquired 
through the act of copulation, and secondarily by some imper¬ 
fection or abrasion in the epithelium forming the cutis.— D'tsch. 
Ztsch. f. Thmd. — - 
Tetanus in the Calf. —Glokke observed tetanus in the calf 
three weeks after castration. Tympanites was present. The 
masseter was strongly contracted and tense; the gluteal and 
caudal muscles were in a similar state. The tail was elevated 
and carried to one side of the mesial line; voluntary motion was 
not attempted. Upon examination, the wound proved to be in 
a healthy condition of cicatrization; the animal was slaughtered. 
Chronic Suppurative Inflammation of the Spleen.— 
A ten-year-old cow had continued to emaciate for six weeks, 
finally becoming so weak as not to be able to rise when down. 
The post-mortem revealed the spleen to be greatly hypertrophied; 
the same weighed 15 pounds and measured 23 inches in length, 
8 in breadth and 3 in thickness, having withal a capsule much 
thickened. The parenchyma was a mixture varying in color from 
a bright yellow to a dark brown, and contained numbers of abscess¬ 
es and collections of blood, pus and debris throughout its extent. 
Other pathological conditions were not found upon the animal. 
ENTERIC Calculi.—A heavy draught horse used for milling 
purposes, was subject to recurrent attacks of intestinal spasm, 
which, however, always yielded to the usual treatment of eserine 
