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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Adeno-Tuberculosis [By J. Hamoir .]—This lameness is 
caused by the tuberculous hypertrophy of the brachio-scapu- 
lar lymphatic glands. The author records a number of cases of 
this nature. The true cause of the lameness had not been 
recognized until the post-mortem, but in the others the lameness 
allowed the diagnosis, exact and rapid, during life. Case i. 
Right shoulder lameness. Post-mortem, thoracic and abdominal 
tuberculosis well marked; right brachio-scapular glands 
hypertrophied. Case 2. Same location of lameness; pul¬ 
monary and hepatic lesions; brachio-scapular glands on the 
right tuberculous. One is as big as a large nut and full of cas¬ 
eous matter. Case 3. Lameness left fore leg, located in the 
shoulder. Pulmonary lesions, also in the liver. One of the left 
glands is enlarged ; contains caseous tubercles ; left olecranon 
muscles atrophied ; corresponding joint healthy. Case 4. Lame¬ 
ness left anterior, since three months. Location the shoulder. 
Autopsy, pulmonary, pleural, bronchial and mesenteric tubercu¬ 
losis. The three axillary glands are tuberculous. Brachio-scapu¬ 
lar glands diseased ; articulation sound. Case 5. Lameness left 
anterior ; location shoulder ; autopsy, pulmonary tuberculosis 
(parietal and visceral). Axillary glands hypertrophied. Brachio- 
scapular gland enlarged and the seat of recent tuberculous de¬ 
generation ; shoulder joint healthy ; tuberculous synovitis of the 
left elbow.—( Annales de Bruxellesd) 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Text Book of Veterinary Medicine. By James Law, F. R. C. V. S., Director 
of the New York State Veterinary College, Ithaca, N. Y. In four volumes. Ithaca : 
Published by the Author. 
While awaiting the compounding of a rather tedious for¬ 
mula in a large prescription pharmacy recently, we violated the 
proprieties to the extent of running through a laige number of 
original prescriptions which were pasted in a book kept for 
the purpose, and which is usually preserved indefinitely as a 
matter of reference and record. We were much edified by the 
variety of combinations of drugs employed by the numerous 
well-known physicians represented, and the different forms of 
therapy employed in the ordinary diseases met with in general 
practice. But we were chiefly interested in observing the 
unanimity with which the medical profession have adopted the 
modern preparations of medicines, and as the particular phar¬ 
macy was an old-established one, we induced the clerk to pro¬ 
duce the prescription records of the year 1885 for the purpose 
