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ABSTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
is sent to the butcher. By the careful examination of the veins 
and its histological study, the case was considered as a chronic 
varicose ulcerative phlebitis, similar to those that are quite com¬ 
monly observed in man.— ( Bullet. de la Soc. Cent.) 
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia of the Stomach 
and Spleen [Adjunct Prof. Lesbouyries .]—After a few days of 
illness this horse died quite suddenly. At the post mortem, on 
opening the thoracic cavity, large quantity of undigested food 
was found, and between the folds of the posterior mediastinum 
were the stomach and spleen, floating in a bloody liquid. Both 
of these organs were in the thoracic cavity, the stomach hanging 
through a diaphragmatic opening, with the piloric portion of the 
small intestine in the abdomen, and forming a very acute angle at 
the point where the stomach passed through the diaphragmatic 
ring. The case was then one of strangulation through said ring. 
There was also hepatization of the right lung, congestion of the 
left and rupture of the stomach at the small curvature. The spleen 
was strangulated also on its external border, and the center of 
the aponaurotic portion of the diaphragm showed the circular 
opening through which the hernia had taken place, lacerated on 
its left side, but presenting the characteristic lesions of congenital 
diaphragmatic hernia. During life the auscultation of the chest 
had revealed only symptoms which justified a diagnosis of typhus 
affection, althoug'h the percussion, quite suspicious, observed with 
clearly marked borborygms, had attracted attention. The animal 
had no colics, bad a comparatively quiet respiration, ejected feces 
with foetid odor, and died when nothing indicated such a sudden 
and rapid end.— (Rev. Vet.) 
Spontaneous Expulsion of the Cotyledons in a Cow 
[Mr. Larrieu \.—This must be a very rare occurrence, savs the 
writer, as he has never seen it during thirty years of practice, 
and it has, so far as he knows, never been recorded in professional 
literature. 
Primiparous Norman d cow had two calves. The delivery was 
comparatively easy. The expulsion of the membranes took place 
naturally and no abnormal vulvar discharge followed. After a 
few days of apparent alteration in her condition, the animal 
makes violent expulsive efforts and throws out some 20 fleshy 
masses, as big as a hen’s egg, convex on one face, concave on the 
other. They are whitish, spongy and odorless. They are uter- 
