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loss of appetite, vomiting, viscous condition of faeces, purple 
colour of comb, harsh voice, difficult respiration. The 
disease rarely lasted more than a day. Autopsy showed a 
blueish condition of the skin, the flesh rapidly putrefied, 
pharyngeal mucous membrane congested and covered with 
mucus; crop filled with a soft fetid mass, intestinal mucous 
membrane inflamed, liver yellow and hypertrophied; gall 
bladder distended with bile, lungs gorged with blood; heart 
petechiated on its outer and inner surfaces, right auricle and 
ventricle filled with blood. The result of the treatment 
employed was entirely negative. It is necessary to separate 
the sick from the healthy and disinfect freely. 
“ Cancer of the Mammary Gland and Cancerous Metas¬ 
tasis into different Organs in a Bitch,” by Pflug ( Zeitschrifi 
fur pr. Vet. TViss. de Putz). In the case of a bitch aged 
fifteen years the author removed a tumour as large as a 
child's head which had developed in the three posterior 
mammary lobes on the right and in the last lobe on the left. 
Microscopic examination showed the alveolar structure and 
other diagnostic appearances of carcinoma. The wound 
healed rapidly under the influence of carbolic dressing, and 
on the twenty-first day the animal left the hospital perfectly 
cured. But the success was only apparent. The general 
health of the patient became gradually less satisfactory, and 
symptoms of uraemia appeared. Nine days after the second 
entry into the hospital, fifty-four days after the operation, 
she succumbed in a state of extreme emaciation. Post¬ 
mortem examination showed metastatic productions in the 
liver, spleen, lungs, cervical and mesenteric lymphatic 
glands and bladder. The author considered as a secondary 
formation a large tumour, composed of two parts, which 
involved the left kidney and its ureter. 
“ On the Inoculability of Malignant New Formations,” 
by Nowinski ( Archiv fur Veter, of St. Petersburg and 
Revue fur Therap ., May, 1878). In spite of the researches 
of many authors, and notably Dupuytren, Alibert, Lebert, 
Vogel, Valentin, Leblanc, Billroth, Langenbeck, Weber, 
Virchow, the question of inoculability of malignant 
neoplasms is not yet resolved, the positive and negative 
evidence seeming to about counterbalance each other; 
hence Nowinski resolved to undertake the experiments of 
which we shall give a hasty resume. His researches concern 
carcinoma and sarcoma, and he took care to make his 
attempts at transmission with animals of the same species 
as those which furnish the matter used for inoculation. His 
method of operation consisted in making an incision into 
