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which is more or less smooth, and by careful examination, 
fluctuation may be detected on the upper wall of the rectal 
sac. Puncture of the abscess gives exit to laudable suppura¬ 
tion, coming from an abscess of the pelvi-rectal cellular tissue. 
Such a case seldom ends fatally. A careful examination of 
the pelvic cavity is always indicated in cases of abdominal 
and colicky complications, in distemper or strangles, before a 
correct diagnosis can be made.— Rec. de Med. Vet. 
ABDOMINAL TUBERCULOSIS IN A CAT. 
By Mr. Nooard. 
Cases of tuberculosis in the dog or the cat are so uncom¬ 
mon that any new case is deserving of record. The present 
is the case of a seven-months-old kitten, which for two or 
three weeks had been losing condition, eating but little, con¬ 
tinually lying down, and ultimately attacked with profuse 
diarrhoea. It was killed, and all the mesenteric glands were 
found to be hypertrophied, some of them softened and caseous, 
and the spleen gorged with small miliary tumors, hard and of 
a greyish color. The intestine was normal, except at the 
beginning of the ccecum, where the mucous membrane was 
thickened and ulcerated. The liver, lungs and bronchial 
glands were healthy. The matter of all the glands and the 
splenic tumors were, by Ehrlich’s method, found full of the 
bacilli of Koch. The kitten had become infected through the 
medium of two patients kept in the hospital where he stayed, 
the patients being themselves sufferers from tuberculosis, and 
it is supposed that he became affected by eating the remains 
of the meals left by these tuberculous patients-— Rec. de Mea . 
Vet. 
WOUND OF THE CAROTID ARTERY. 
By Mr. Van Autgarden. 
This is a rare form of injury in veterinary records, espec¬ 
ially in our days, when phlebotomy is so seldom practised. 
A horse which had just been bled at the jugular showed a 
tumor in the jugular groove, which filled it up and interfered 
