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chondro-costal articulation,there is a tumor plunging into the ab¬ 
dominal cavity, which after maceration in boiling water is as big 
as the fist, weighing only 40 grammes and made ot bony, 
spongious, rarefied tissue ; it surrounds the articulation entirely. 
What was its nature ? Did it act mechanically on the right 
lobe ? Did it press on any of the large blood vessels ? All those 
are questions that cannot be well answered.—( Rec. de Med. Vet.) 
BELGIAN REVIEW. 
Sulphur as Purgative for Dogs [By G. Hebrant \.—It 
seems that it is a common occurrence for people in Brussels to 
give sulphur to their dogs as a purgative. It is an old habit, 
which is very difficult to eradicate. The author, with Mr. 
Mosselman, has already related several cases of intoxication in 
horses after the administration of too large doses of sulphur, 
and records a case which occurred in a dog which very fortu¬ 
nately recovered by the administration of carbonate of iron, 
nux vomica and emollient drinks. The symptoms observed 
were as follows : At first colicky pains, indicated by groans and 
restlessness ; nauseas and vomiting—later semi-liquid faeces, 
mixed with dark excrements of very offensive odor ; respiration 
accelerated, great dullness, and comatose condition quite 
marked. The faeces and vomitings took place at intervals, and 
were more or less mixed with blood. The pupil had been 
slightly dilated, pulse quick. There was no odor of sulphurous 
hydrogen well marked .—(Annates de Bruxelles.) 
Two Cases of Obstruction of the CEsophagus in 
Bovines — An Improvised Probang [By Ed. Conradt ].—The 
first was a heifer, which presented all the symptoms of choking, 
and in the pharynx at the entrance of the oesophagus there was 
a potato which could not be removed with the hand or the 
means the author had at his disposal. It was then that he resorted 
to the use of a piece of wire bent in a peculiar way, with which 
he succeeded at last in having the foreign body coughed up. 
Not well satisfied with the working of this instrument of im¬ 
promptu fabrication, he had endeavored to have one made by 
some makers working on the same plan, but had not succeeded 
when a second case gave him the opportunity to make one 
which gave him full satisfaction. This time it was a cow, 
choked by an apple. All kinds of manipulations were tried and 
nothing succeeded. Mr. Conradt then asked for a piece of 
iron wire, 1 m. 75 long (that of a straw or hay bale answers). 
