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On the 5th of June the owner sent for us to attend the 
slaughtering of the animal, that we might pass an opinion as 
to the edibility of the meat. The cow had become loose in 
some way and had fallen in the yard ; failing to rise after 
assistance had been given, the owner concluded to dispatch 
the animal. 
With the exception of distoma hepaticum and lanceolatum 
in the liver, the internal organs showed nothing abnormal ; 
the subcutis at the gluteal region was infiltrated, and the pel¬ 
vis had been fractured. 
The cancellated tissue in the bodies of the vetebras was 
hypermmic; the medullary contents of the long bones had 
become soft, half liquid and dark red in color. Exostosis at 
the epipheses of the long bones not present. 
The case was diagnosed one of osteomalacia, a disease but 
seldom met in bovine practice .—Berliner Tli. Woch. 
BRIEF PATHOLOGICAL OBSERVATION. 
Vath noticed in January, 1891-1892, nine cases of cerebral 
apoplexy in cattle. In five of the animals the cause was as¬ 
cribed to unknown and peculiar circumstances. One patient 
fell to the ground and could not regain the feet; two which 
had fallen while at work were, after the lapse of some time, 
able to return to the stable. 
Generally the sick animals manifested nothing noteworthy 
in the first two days excepting listlessness and anorexia; body 
temperature not increased, skin and extremities cold, pulse 
and respiration normal. Digestive process, as indicated by 
auscultation, interfered with. 
From the third or fourth day unsteadiness of gait was 
noticed ; paralysis of the tongue and throat, with later a palsy 
of the remaining portions of the alimentary canal. The 
tongue pendant from the commissures of the mouth; patients 
apparently suffered at times intense hunger, as shown by the 
greed with which they plunged into the food, but without 
being able to obtain or masticate the nourishment. 
The paralytic condition being a progressive one, the ani- 
