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justifies the idea of stomach staggers, and the administration of 
a good purge. After a temporary relief, the manifestations 
returned, and having resisted all treatment—bleeding, bromide 
of potassium, etc.—became such that the horse was destroyed 
by being bled to death. At the post-mortem all the organs were 
found healthy except the contents of the cranial cavity. “ The 
brain being carefully removed, there was exposed, growing 
from the lateral ventricles, two large tumors, one in each hemis¬ 
phere. These tumors were somewhat the shape and half the 
length of a sausage, and on being cut into proved to be of a firm 
consistence and greasy to the cut of the knife.” Prof. McFad- 
yean, who examined them, pronounced them psammoma. The 
author puts the question : Can not similar growths, during the 
various stages of their development, account for some of our 
vicious and bad-tempered horses?—( Veterinary Record.) 
Hemoglobinuria of the Fore Extremities [By H. G. 
Allen , M. R. C. V. A.].—Azoturia affecting the anterior extrem¬ 
ities is not often recorded. The author has seen one which he 
reports, with the history and manifestations, common to the af¬ 
fection. A cart mare, laid up for three days, ordinary working 
diet not restricted, put to work, goes about a mile, is found 
unable to progress, and is with difficulty brought home, where 
she drops. When she is urged to rise, her fore legs give way, 
power is completely gone. Pier urine is characteristic, coffee 
color, with a “ lakey ” tint, when held up to the light. She 
got well under treatment of purgatives of aloes and linseed oil, 
febrifuges and diaphoretic drenches. In a fortnight, there was ev¬ 
ident wasting of the pectoral and biceps muscles of both sides. 
—( Veterinary Record.) [Azoturia affecting the anterior por¬ 
tion of the body—the animal being able to support itself upon 
the hind extremities, giving way on the front legs—is now fre¬ 
quently observed and recorded by American practitioners.—R. 
R. B.] 
Extensive Disease of Ovaries and Uterus—Opera¬ 
tion and Recovery [By H. G. Simpson , M. R. C. V. S.] — 
Good three-year-old tabby has never been known to be sick, 
but of a sudden she stops eating, seems ill and smells very badly. 
She has a foetid discharge from the vulva and a pendulous ab¬ 
domen. Perhaps she has given birth to two dead kittens. At 
any rate the author examines her, and finds what might be the 
head of a foetus in her pendulous abdomen. As long as it can 
not be removed through the natural channel, it will by abdomi¬ 
nal operation. Poor tabby is chloroformed, abdomen is opened 
