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casional knucklings over behind, and digging of the toes of 
the fore feet into the ground. A diagnosis was made of cere¬ 
bral affection, caused by pressure. Heart trouble had never 
appeared to affect him, and was never suspected. After re¬ 
maining in the same condition for a few days, he was de¬ 
stroyed, and the heart was found quite altered in shape, hav¬ 
ing the apex tapering in a fine point, and curved very much 
backwards. The right auricle contained several ossific cen¬ 
ters, which must have interfered with its action during life. 
The cranium contained a quantity of clear fluid at the base of 
the cerebrum, and there was also a small congested spot 
which was observed when the brain was incised, on the near 
side, above the lateral ventricle. These lesions of the heart 
are considered by the- author to have been the cause of the 
brain affection.— Veterinary Record. 
CLINICAL NOTE ON PAPILLOMATA. 
By F. T. Haevey. 
The author had removed a large growth from a yearling 
nine months old. The tumor was situated on the scrotum, 
and had evidently grown from the line of incision made when 
the animal was castrated, some six months previously. On 
inquiry it was ascertained that the operation had been per¬ 
formed immediately after the removing, by the same surgeon, 
of an immense mass of warts from the nose of a two-year-old 
heifer, and it was therefore thought possible that some of the 
cells of the warts from the nose of the heifer had been trans¬ 
planted during the castration, and finding a suitable soil, had 
multiplied and produced a growth of a similar nature to that 
of its parents. The two patients belonged to different own¬ 
ers, and the only possible means of contact between them 
must have been the hands of the surgeon, which must have 
been imperfectly washed, different knives having been used 
in operating.— Veterinary Record. 
AN UNUSUAL CASE OF LAMENESS. 
By T. Duck, A.Y.D. 
Under this title the author reports a case of rupture of 
the flexor metatarsi as follows : “ Symptoms .—Horse in pain ; 
