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The next day the cow seemed quite ill. She had lost appetite, 
had fever (40.8 C.), and was making expulsive efforts. As great 
care had been exercised during the manipulations of the day 
before, no lesion was suspected, but it was thought she was 
going to have puerperal fever, and treatment was prescribed 
accordingly, viz., vaginal injections of creolin and antifebrile 
doses of salicylate of soda. No improvement followed, and the 
following day the cow was much worse, the expulsive efforts 
returning more frequently. The caretaker then reported that 
during one of the vaginal injections a foreign body had been 
expelled and dropped 011 the bedding. What was it but a foetal 
third phalanx. A re-examination of the first foetus showed the 
cadaver to be perfect. A vaginal examination was made at once, 
and a bone resembling a tibia was extracted, and in the right 
horn of the uterus was felt an emphysematous oblong mass, 
floating in a very offensive syrupous liquid, and which was an¬ 
other foetus. This was removed, the uterus disinfected by irri¬ 
gation, and the cow recovered rapidly.—(. Il'Nuovo Ercolani .) 
Foreign Body in the Mouth of a Cow [Dr. G. 
Leoni \.—Since about forty days the animal has had on the 
left side of the face, extending from half of the masseterine re¬ 
gion down to the inferior portion of the jaw, a swelling which 
has been growing more and more. It has been treated by an 
empiric without result, and now there are two fistulous tracts, 
from which pus is escaping. The growth is a little less painful 
and perhaps a little smaller. The examination of the mouth 
was quite difficult and demanded the use of a special speculum. 
When it was made, a foreign body was discovered on a level 
with the third molar. It had made its way partly through the 
mucous membrane of the mouth and was almost entirely sur¬ 
rounded by soft structures. With long forceps, however, a 
good hold could be taken of it, when it was extracted. It proved 
to be a triangular piece of slate ; one of the angles, quite sharp, 
rested on the third molar; another, more cutting, had pene¬ 
trated.the soft tissues ; the third, more blunt, was the one which 
had given rise to the fistulse. The wound and the fistulous 
tracts were treated/with disinfecting solutions of sublimate, and 
the animal recovered in a few days .—(II Nuovo Ercolani.') 
Aotes of Pathoeogicae Anatomy [Dr. Garibalao Eisz\. 
1 hese relate to three cases of cysts which were observed by 
the author at the slaughter-house at Carrara. The first was in 
a young calf. It was situated toward the point of the liver and 
adherent to it, attached to the Glisson membrane, and contained 
