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EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN JOURNALS, 
By Richard Middleton, D.Y.S., Philadelphia, Pa. 
MALIGNANT (EDEMA IN THE COW. 
Descriptions of this affection, occurring spontaneously, 
are unusually scarce in our literature ; perhaps, therefore, the 
following account may not be uninteresting : 
This particular animal belonged to a farmer, whose prop¬ 
erty was situated high above the sea level. On October 29th, 
the following symptoms suddenly seized the patient: anorexia 
with considerable swelling, and protrusion of the membrana 
nictitans. (The owner’s wife had cut through the latter with 
scissors, before our arrival.) The impression made upon ex¬ 
amination on the evening of the same day confirmed the his¬ 
tory of a very sick patient. Sounds in the posterior body 
could not be distinguished ; the horns were warm. Inspec¬ 
tion of the mouth and oesophagus also yielded negative re¬ 
sults. 
In the parotid region of the left side a swelling was evi¬ 
dent, with no well circumscribed line of demarkation separat¬ 
ing it from the adjacent surface ; also upon the same side at the 
intermaxillary space a fluctuating tumor the size of a billiard 
ball. 
All movement of the jaw was exceedingly painful to the 
animal. The contour of the inferior maxilla had become 
lost the following day by a swelling involving the commissure 
of the lips and chin, which latter offered a wound of little 
depth and extent, presumably made by a neighboring cow. 
On the third day the symptoms were much more violent, 
and rendered more serious by a dyspnoea due to oedema in 
the laryngeal region. Food and water were refused ; most 
of the individual enlargement had become confluent. 
Eyelids thickened, ophthalmic bulb protruding; cornea 
devoid of lustre, opaque, and corneal reflex absent. 
Arnica infusion was prescribed and applied locally, with 
decoction of flaxseed internally ; the result of the therapy was 
beneficial only so far as it influenced the fcecal discharges,. 
