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wound by cleansing the same with an antiseptic fluid.— (Mo- 
natschr. f pr . Thierh .) 
BELGIAN REVIEW. 
By Prof. A. Liautard, M. D., V. M. 
Two Cases of Lymphademia in Cows [E. Lienaux \.— 
This affection is not rare in cattle. In the first animal there 
was first an enlargement of the prepectoral lymphatic glands, 
which being suspicious of abscedation, was punctured without 
result. Later on this tumefaction of the inferior border of the 
neck had reached the size of the head of a child. The jugulars 
were very large, and bulging under the skin. The prescapular 
tumors which had not been punctured were as large as the fist, 
ovoid, elastic in consistency. They make one think of second¬ 
ary adenitis, of malignant tumor or primitive abscess. The 
enumeration of the white globules shows a marked lowering of 
the red corpuscles. There is an absence of leucaemia. The gen¬ 
eral condition is bad, although the functions act normally. Af¬ 
ter three weeks of observation the precrural glands become hy¬ 
pertrophied and form elastic tumors, vertically elongated and 
painless. They project on each flank. Tympanites, intermit¬ 
tent in character, soon makes its appearance ; the animal loses 
flesh and dies. The post-mortem confirmed the diagnosis of 
lymphademia, which had been made by the hyperplasia of the 
glands above mentioned, as well as by that of the bronchial and 
mesenteric glands. The lungs were the seat of verminous bron¬ 
chitis. Case II .—This was more interesting on account of the 
greatest number of lesions and the specific alterations of the 
skin. The formation of adenoid tissue in the skin has been 
observed in man ; this case is probably the first recorded in vet¬ 
erinary medicine. With this subject lesions were very peculiar. 
It was a three-year-old cow, which had a singular aspect. She 
was bosselated, and at first sight seemed covered with warts. 
There were numerous tumors, spread more or less all over the 
body, except the lower end of the legs ; they were on the head, 
the neck, the back, the croup, the tail, the perineum, and the 
mammae, where they were in greater number. These tumors 
protruded under the skin more or less; there was no villous or 
papillar aspect, no fissures between as in warts ; they were flat, 
with hairs more or less erected, sometimes they were hairless. 
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