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nature of a pathological product. All that is necessary is to 
take as the testing animal, a male guinea pig and inoculate 
him in the peritoneal cavity, and if within two or three days 
the testicles become tumefied and prominent at the ring, we 
may by this fact alone feel justified in affirming, almost with 
certainty, that the inoculated substances have contained the 
bacillus of glanders .—Archives de Md. Exper. 
REPORTS OF CASES, 
‘ ‘ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner , but his skill dies with him. By 
recording his observations he adds to the knowledge of his profession , and as¬ 
sists by his facts in building up the solid edifice of pathological science .”— Vet¬ 
erinary Record. 
CYCLOPS MEGALOSTOMUS ARCHYNCHUS. 
By S. C. Orr, V.S., Manhattan, Kansas. 
Editor Review. On the morning of the 20th of June I 
was called to attend a case of difficult parturition in a mare. 
Upon examination I found an anterior presentation with a 
deviation of the head upwards and backwards and the foal 
dead. After several unsuccessful attempts to bring the head 
to the proper position, I concluded it would be necessary to 
perform embryotomy to save the mare. After a long and 
tedious operation the head and neck were severed from the 
body close to the shoulders and each removed separately, and 
the subject of the accompanying cut is what I found. The 
body was that of a well-formed colt, but the head had the 
superior maxillae two inches shorter than the inferior, and the 
pre-maxilla very rudimentary and entirely cartilaginous, 
nasal chambers and posterior nares entirely absent, but well- 
formed pharynx and fully developed velum pendulum palati, 
so that had it been born alive, existence would have been im¬ 
possible. The eyes, instead of being in their proper places, 
were both combined in one large eye located in the center of 
the forehead. There were two pupils, two distinct lower lids 
and one upper, and the eye-ball very prominent. As the mare 
has been kept near the railroad it is thought by some that 
this strange freak of nature was caused by sudden fright at 
