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the following morning. After these first two days, there is 
marked improvement. Same treatment third and fourth days. 
In five days the animal takes milk easily, and in three weeks 
he was in perfect health. Lockjaw is so severe an affection 
that it justifies all therapeutical audacities, and perhaps the two 
successes obtained by this mode of treatment may be tried by 
others.—( Journ . de Med. Vet. and Zoot .) 
Rupture of the Bladder following a Case of Haem¬ 
orrhagic Cystitis due to Vegetations in a Cow [ P . 
Bitardb \.—This is the case of a six-year-old cow, seven months 
pregnant, which about a year previous had presented all the 
symptoms of acute cystitis, from which she seemed to have re¬ 
covered. For several months she was well, until toward her 
six months of pregnancy, w’hen it was noticed that her urine 
was cloudy, thin, bloody, micturition being at first difficult and 
afterwards taking place only with violent efforts. She had 
some colicy pains. Briefly the author was called, and after 
close examination, rectal exploration, etc., he was at first per¬ 
plexed as to his diagnosis, but at a second visit, after a vaginal 
exploration with the manifestations presented by the cow, he 
made the diagnosis of rupture of the bladder. At the autopsy 
all the symptoms of cystic peritonitis were observed. In the 
bladder the mucous membrane shows extensive ecchymosis 
covering a tissue of new formation, assuming the form of 
rounded nodules as big as an almond, having the color of black 
asphyxiated blood, and having the aspect of black berries. 
These characteristic vegetations of haemorrhagic cystitis ex¬ 
isted on the anterior cul-de-sac and floor of the organ, and in 
larger number and bigger size at the seat of the rupture and the 
vesical neck .—(Progres Veterin.) 
Improved Method of the Operation of Neurotomy 
[/?. Bissauge ~\.—After reviewing many of the complications 
which are likely to follow the operation, the author describes a 
slight modification of the modus operandi , which he believes 
for him has been the means of avoiding the sequelae sometimes 
met with by the old method. He proceeds as follows : After 
the usual antiseptic cares and the ordinary first steps of the op¬ 
eration, the section of the nerve is made with the smallest blade 
of the zoo-cautery. The section must be made quite slowly; 
it is. accompanied by severe struggling of the animal, but is 
nevertheless easily made, when the nerve has been well isolated. 
Of course the first section is made upwards. The remainder of 
the operation is as in other operations. The cutaneous wounds 
