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sues. The diagnosis established, the author proceeded to the re¬ 
moval, casting the horse on the left side to operate on the right 
leg first and vice versa. In removing the right tumor and isolat¬ 
ing it from the plantar nerve and artery, upon which it passed, 
a ramification of the artery which enters it had to be ligated. 
The left tumor is smaller and covered by the skin ; it seemed to 
have started from an indurated spot of the skin. The plantar 
artery passed at its base and sent four little branches into it. 
The artery was quite large. The plantar nerve was adherent 
to the base of the tumor, and careful dissection was necessary 
to take it off. The wounds after being disinfected were sutured 
and dressed antiseptically. Recovery final in three weeks.— 
(Clinic a Veterin.) 
Upon Several Cases of Syndesmotomy for Treat¬ 
ment of False Dislocation of the Patella [By A. Malga- 
rini\ .—For cases of the superior luxation of the patella as causes 
of cramps in bovines, the author admits but one proper treat¬ 
ment, and that is the operation of syndesmotomy. He records 
briefly 18 cases, in which the operation has been performed by 
him, and always successfully and without serious complications 
—in fact, without any. The cases were of various nature, some¬ 
times unilateral, on the right or on the leftside, and then, again, 
in others, both legs were affected. In these last he generally al¬ 
lowed a number of days to elapse before operating on the second 
leg. Of those 18 cases, fourteen were cicatrized without suppu¬ 
ration, in the other four, small collection of pus occurred at the 
seat of the operation ; but these subsided without trouble, with 
little attention and care .—(Clinica Veterin.') 
False Rabies as a Mania of Maternity [Dr. E. 
Stragia .]—This simple case is that of a fat setter slut, which, 
having bitten a servant passing close to her, was suspected of 
rabies. The animal was known by the author, as he had oper¬ 
ated upon her some time before for a large sebaceous cyst of the 
left elbow. The dog slobbered some at the mouth, growled, 
barked and assumed a threatening aspect to those who ap- 
proached her. For the last eight or nine days she has been more 
quiet than usual ; her mammae had become considerably swol¬ 
len. Since three days she has lost her appetite. The year pre¬ 
vious she had presented somewhat the same symptoms, but 
in a much milder form. Taking in consideration that for 
two years the slut had not been covered, that during several 
years previous all her sucking pups had died, and that she had 
already presented similar symptoms, the author came to the con- 
