378 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
dead trout (Salmoferop) came to grief partly from the effects 
of the fungus on the gills, and partly, as well as more imme¬ 
diately, from the irritation due to the presence of the very 
numerous young Ligules. I think, therefore, with Mr. 
Simpson, that the amount of fungus development was not 
of itself a sufficient cause of death, though, had there been 
no entozoa present, there can be little doubt but that the 
fungus disease would have gone on extending its ravages 
until the piscine host finally succumbed. Death from 
ligulosis is probably an exceptional occurrence. 
In conclusion, I may state that there is abundant evidence 
to prove that all vertebrates are liable to succumb to 
parasitic disease ; and the only effectual way of checking 
these outbreaks is to adopt some means of destroying the 
entozoa and ectozoa in one or other of their phases of life 
development. 
SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY 
JOURNALS. 
By John Henry Steel, M.R.C.V.S., F.Z.S., Demonstrator 
of Anatomy at the Royal Veterinary College. 
M. Corneyin’s Italian Review, as given in the Journalde 
Medecine Veter inair e for April, 1880, is most interesting and 
needs no apology for reproduction as follows: 
Progressive Paralytic Muscidar Hypertrophy or Pseudo- 
hypertrophic Lipomatous Muscular Disorder in a Calf , by 
M. E. Perroncito. —Since Duchenne, of Boulogne, published 
the first case of hypertrophic paraplegia of childhood, due to 
cerebral causes, observations in human medicine have multi¬ 
plied and medical literature is now rich in information on this 
subject. Veterinary pathology, on the other hand, has 
nothing relating to it, unless we consider as this disease that 
which Rolff has described under the name “ Fatty degenera¬ 
tion of the muscles of young swine,” which, indeed, seems 
to differ from it neither in its mode of origin nor in the 
lesions to which it gives rise. Nevertheless, many experi¬ 
menters, among them Mantyazza, Vulpian, Bizzozero, and 
Golgi, have produced it in animals. Mantyazza observed 
that on section of the ischiatic and crural nerves there 
occurs diminution in size of the muscular fibre, together 
with increased production of sarcolemmatous nuclei, and 
more rapid growth of the interfascicular connective tissue, 
