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tity of blood in the abdomen. There was a second aneurism, as 
big as a small orange, in the chest at the bifurcation of the ante¬ 
rior aorta. The heart was smaller than normal, with flabby 
walls. All the organs were healthy.—( Journ. Comp. Pathol 
and Therapeutics .) 
An Interesting Cranial Case \W. Bower and F.Hob¬ 
day] .—A hackney filly, supposed to have been hurt while at 
pasture, had a purulent discharge issuing from a hole situated 
in the forehead, apparently either in the upper part of the right 
frontal or at its junction with the parietal. As all antiseptic 
treatment had failed to relieve her, it was decided to operate. 
Cocaine was injected and the u skull trephined at the upper ex¬ 
tremity of the frontal sinus, as high up as it seemed safe to go, 
and just below the injury, the idea being to work from below. ’ 
But this could not be done, being arrested by the septum which 
forms the roof of the sinus. It was necessary to enlarge the 
hole in the cranium with bone forceps, and when it was suffi¬ 
ciently large to admit a finger with a great deal of care a piece 
of bone about the size of a shilling piece was removed. It had 
laid over the brain, leaving the membranes intact. Recovery 
followed with antiseptic treatment of the wound.— {Journ. 
Comp. Pathol, and Therapeutic si) 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Veterinary Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By Kenelm Winslow, B. A. S., 
M.D.V., M.D. (Harv.), Assistant Professor of Therapeutics in the Veterinary 
School of Harvard University, etc. New York : W. R. Jenkins, eterinarj Pub¬ 
lisher, 851-853 Sixth Avenue. 
The field of veterinary materia medica has never been filled 
to the extent that the importance of the subject demanded, and, 
while all other branches of veterinary science have had numer¬ 
ous contributions from American authors that of medicine and 
therapeutics has never received the compliment of a presump¬ 
tions text-book, veterinary posology being about the extent of 
the efforts put forth. The excellent work by Finlay Dun has 
been our only guide, and it would be a rather reckless assertion 
to claim that this treatise was well adapted to the needs of the 
present generation of American veterinarians. In England, it 
may be a satisfying compendium of therapeutics, but. in the 
live, bustling up-to-date profession of the Western Hemisphere, 
it is many years to the rear, and the time is well at hand when 
we should have text-books adapted to American methods and 
