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AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The chains of the ordinary ecraseurs being generally too short, 
piano wires, often used in crashing tumors, had been provided, 
some of them measuring two or three feet in length. Still, none 
of them were found to be long enough to embrace the mass at its 
base. Several attempts were made to crush the tumor, both in 
whole and in portions, but all failed, and the case assumed such 
a character that there was no doubt as to the ultimate result. 
The animal would never again get up, even if the tumor were 
removed, the shock having been too severe, and fatal traumatic 
peritonitis would be the inevitable termination. The animal, 
while still under general anaesthesia, was consequently destroyed, 
and a post-mortem examination made immediately. 
The walls of the abdomen having been removed, the tumor 
was well exposed. It was found resting on the left side of the 
anterior rim of the pelvis, and pressing upon the superior inguinal 
ring. It was smooth, round and firm, and adhered to the adja¬ 
cent tissues by a large base, which measured not less than three 
and a half feet in circumference. Torn from its attachments 
and removed from the abdomen, it weighed nearly five pounds, 
and measured sixteen inches in thickness. A section through its 
centre showed it to be formed of a largely condensed structure, 
of a dark greyish hue, of a lardaceous nature, a small portion 
of which, placed under the microscope, revealed sarcomatous de¬ 
generation, probably of some of the lumbar lymphatic or super¬ 
ficial pelvic ganglious. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. 
The American Veterinary College brought the term for 
1885-’86 to an agreeable close by the Commencement exercises, 
which was held at the usual place, Chickering Hall, on the 1st 
instant. Notwithstanding that the month had marched in “ like 
a lion,” and an angry one at that, and the weather was of a 
character fully to justify one’s fears of a scant attendance, the 
hall, long before eight o’clock, was filled with the officers of the 
