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complete. At the risk of slight reiteration I shall here give 
a few details showing this analogy; namely, the non¬ 
collapse of lung-tissue and consequent swollen appearance; 
the tolerably large spots of subpleural and interlobular effusion 
of yellow serum or exudate ; the easily perceptible raising or 
bulging of the pleuro-pulmonalis over these spots of effusion; 
the parenchymatous hypereemia accompanying these 
effusions; the bronchial congestion and its concomitant 
discharge; and the signs of morbid deposits on the external 
surface of the pleuro-pulmonalis. All these I saw, and in 
addition to this the owner said there was an immense 
amount of fluid within the cavity of the chest, with large 
yellowish bands of deposit here and there, some of the 
latter floating about, and at one place th e pleurce pidmonalis 
et costalis were attached to each other (lungs and ribs, as 
owner said) by one of these bands of yellow deposit. 
This description of these morbid appearances could, with¬ 
out any great stretch of the imagination, be well made to 
stand for a genuine case of pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa; 
and to entirely prove the truth of the editorial remarks in last 
month’s Leader—that mistakes may and do happen through 
confounding the symptoms and post-mortem appearances of 
lung-parasitism with those of contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
The veterinary surgeon, be he inspector or otherwise, 
cannot be too cautious in giving a final decision in any case 
where there is the least opening for a doubt. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE USE OF THE 
ECRASEUR. 
By George South, M.R.C.V.S. 
Sirs, —On perusing your journal for the past month I 
found the ecraseur was highly spoken of at the Nottingham 
meeting of the Midland Counties’ Veterinary Medical 
Association, for use in castration and the removal of external 
tumours. If you can afford me the space, perhaps a short 
relation of my experience may give confidence to other prac¬ 
titioners in using the instrument. A medical friend of mine, 
a clever lithotomist and operator in removing tumours from 
the human subject, used the ecraseur some fifteen years ago 
to take a pendulous tumour from off the tongue of a woman. 
The result was so satisfactory that I was struck with the 
thought that the instrument would be a most valuable one 
