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ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
The difficulty of the respiration increases until the discharge 
of a fibrous mass, the size of a pigeon's egg, takes place, 
when the respiration becomes freer, but the difficulty again 
arises until a smaller lump is rejected from the other nostril. 
Besides this, there is also a constant discharp of a sero- 
sanguineous character, dripping drop by drop from the nose. 
The proprietor informed the author that the animal had been 
in that state for some days. However, there was very little 
reaction or fever; the ox fed, and ruminated nearly as usual. 
There was, however, a little redness of the mucous membrane, 
and a slight acceleration of the pulse. The author was 
puzzled by these symptoms, and unable to diagnosticate the 
seat of the malady. He confesses having only met with two 
cases. The ox was sold to a butcher, and it was only after 
examining the head that the seat of the disease was found to 
be in the ethmoidal sinuses. 
LONGITUDINAL DIVISION OT THE PALATE. 
By M. Guitard, Veterinary Surgeon. 
A RECENTLY purchased ox had a discharge from the right 
nostril consisting of alimentary substances and saliva when 
feeding or ruminating, and only of saliva when these acts 
were not performed. 
On examination it was found that there was a longitudinal 
division of the palate, a little towards the right, extending 
from the anterior division to the posterior part of the buccal 
cavity. The mouth being opened by an assistant, and the 
fingers introduced into the division, tliey could be distinctly 
seen by looking up through the nostril. It was easy to 
ascertain that the fissure occupied three-quarters of the palate, 
i.e. to the anterior border of the os palatine, which lead to 
suppose that this bone was abnormal. The incisive arch could 
be reached without difficulty by the hand to the fissure of the 
same name, showing that it had not closed as in the normal 
state. This defect must be attributed to a faulty development 
in foetal life. 
