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and with the other passed it over the abdomen, the rumen, and 
over the sausage-like cord of the right flank. After ten minutes 
the calf passed a fair quantity of faeces, covered with croupal 
exudation. Drenches of white wine and repetition of the elec¬ 
tric application brought on improvement. On the third day the 
animal had marked tympanites, which was relieved by punctur¬ 
ing and ammoniacal drenches. Electricity was again applied 
for four days, and recovery followed without further trouble.— 
(Clin ica Veterin a ria .) 
Contribution to Neurectomy of the Median in Soli- 
peds \_Dr. Pietro Ghisleni ].-—Although this operation has 
entered into almost daily practice, there are yet many who ob¬ 
ject to it. Can it entirely take the place of plantar neurotomy, 
as some claim ? What is the cause of its failure ? Is it applic¬ 
able to all forms of specific lameness ? Has the anatomical for¬ 
mation of the plantar nerves something to do with the failures ? 
All these questions have been studied by the author—princi¬ 
pally the last one. He has made interesting anatomical re¬ 
searches, has carried experiments on many animals, and has 
made some clinical observations of value, which authorize him 
to draw the following conclusions: (i) That of the nervous 
fibres of the cubital only a part go to the foot, where they keep 
up a certain degree of sensibility ; (2) that this degree of sen¬ 
sibility is more marked in the territory of the termination of 
the external plantar, and that as the clinic and the experiments 
have proved it, it is in lesions of the external half of the foot 
that median neurectomy answers ; (3) that median neurectomy 
has many advantages over the plantar operation, one being to 
allow a certain quantity of its function to remain, although in 
limited extent ; (4) that in cases of negative result with median 
neurectomy, one may resort to that of the external plantar as a 
means of removing what little remains as a result of the slight 
sensitiveness of the foot.—( Clinica Veterinaria. ) 
A Case of Obstetrics [Dr. Luigi Filippi\. —Although 
not new, the rarity of the case justifies its publication. A four- 
year-old cow, which had been served some six months previous, 
exhibited some symptoms of abortion, except the expulsive ef¬ 
forts. For fear of bringing about a too early delivery, a rectal 
examination was made and a foetus, partly engaged in the neck 
of the uterus, was readily made out. The examination per 
vagina revealed that abortion was going on. The foetus was in 
the sterno-abdominal presentation, which was easily changed 
by the author, and a small foetus of the male sex was removed. 
