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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS 
A NOTE OF SUGGESTION IN RELATION TO THE DIAGNOSIS OF 
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. 
By Mr. G. Bouohet. 
A cow taken with tympanitis, from which she was very 
sick, was relieved by puncture of the rumen, and upon inquir¬ 
ing- into her history it was learned that she had always been 
in condition, and good health, though she had had a deep, 
thick and repeated cough, to which, however, no importance 
was attached. She continued healthy for a year, and had a 
calf, which she raised well, and had been well up to the time 
of the author’s visit. Careful examination failed to detect 
any indication of the cause of the trouble. At the autopsy 
made at a later period, a mild abdominal tuberculosis was 
detected, involving more or less the entire abdominal struc¬ 
tures. In the chest, the pleura was found normal, as also were 
the lungs, with the exception of a few tuberculous products 
through their thickness. The tuberculous process was prin¬ 
cipally located in the glands of the posterior mediastinum, all 
of which were diseased, some of them attaining the size of 
the fist, and appearing like a mass, surrounded by a capsule. 
They were of a yellowish appearance, with more or less thick 
pus in the center. One of the largest of them was situated 
between the lungs, just under the aesophagus, which it sur¬ 
rounded and more or less compressed, constituting a condition 
sufficient to explain the resistance to all forms of treatment 
so often encountered in dealing with tympanitic patients.— 
Receuil de Med. Vet. 
PELVIC ABSCESS AS A SEQUELAE OF DISTEMPER. 
By Mr. Lardet. 
In this report the author says, “ When this complication 
takes place, which is generally when the animal is in full con¬ 
valescence, he becomes suddenly dull and loses his appetite, 
and suffers with attacks of intermittent colic, and after a few 
days defecation becomes difficult and painful, the faeces being 
small, hard and coated. Rectal inspection then reveals a 
tumefied condition of the mucous membrane of that region, 
