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rest. In some instances, after going a quarter of a mile, he 
would suddenly reel, seeming to lose control of his legs, sweat¬ 
ing profusely, and in considerable pain. All of these symptoms 
would pass away by rest and return as soon as exertion was de¬ 
manded of him. In the beginning spavin had been suspected 
and a blister was applied.—( Vet. Record.') [There being no 
thrombosis, was the aneurism the cause of the trouble. ? It is 
reogetable that no mention is made of the condition of the 
hocks at the post-mortem.— A. L.~\ 
Acute Splenitis—Cause? [ 77 . J. R. P.]. —It is indeed 
an attack of acute splenitis which carried off a valuable deer¬ 
hound dog, in the very pink of condition, and which, after a 
gallop in the morning, was suddenly taken ill in the afternoon, 
with hurried and painful breathing and abdominal distension, 
for which he received a dose of oil. He grew worse ; the tym¬ 
panites of the abdomen increased, eyes were sunken, corners of 
the mouth retracted, salivation, anxious expression, temperature 
102.4 5 110 motion of bowels by first dose of oil. The dog died 
in a few hours, and at the post-mortem all the organs were found 
normal except the spleen, which was black, enormously en¬ 
larged, weighing two and a half pounds ; the omentum was 
congested, and the distended stomach contained a lot of fluid 
and partly digested food. The size of the spleen suggested 
splenic apoplexy, but no trace of the bacilli could be found under 
the microscope. What could have caused this ? If it were not 
a sudden enlargement, how could the dog have been in such 
spirits and form in the morning?— {Vet. Record.) 
RUSSIAN REVIEW. 
By Prof A. Liautard, M. D., V. M. 
Tuberculosis in the Buffalo [. N.Kantzelmaher , of Tiflis]. 
—To this day tuberculosis among buffaloes has been studied 
but little. According to Prettner, these animals are refractory 
to it. This author has made only two experiments : to a young 
buffalo cow he injected in the vein of the ear 5 cc. of a virulent 
culture and 20 cc. in the peritoneal cavity. A month later the 
animal was killed and no tuberculous lesions found. To control 
this experiment, he inoculated a young calf with 5 cc. in the 
vein of the ear and 10 cc. in the peritoneal cavity, and after 
three weeks the animal died with marked tuberculosis. In 
another experiment Prettner injected a virulent culture to an 
