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with abundant deposition of fat in its meshes when the 
animal survived for a long time. Vulpian, after section of the 
ischiatic, hypoglossal, lingual, and facial nerves, together 
with hyperplasia of the connective tissue, deposition of fat, 
and multiplication of nuclei, observed an increase in the 
diameter of the muscular fibre. Bizzozero and Golgi, who 
repeated Mantyazza’s observations, asserted that they, as he 
did, observed diminution of the same diameter. Whatever 
conclusion may be arrived at on this particular point, we 
learn from the above-mentioned work that in the first stage 
of hypertrophic paraplegia there is an excessive develop¬ 
ment of connective, in the second stage of fatty tissue. M. 
Perroncito relates a case which he observed in a yearling 
calf which was slaughtered in the abattoir of Turin, in 
December, 1877. It was of the Piedmontese-plain breed, 
and since birth had retained the recumbent position. When 
any attempt was made to raise him, after many efforts he 
would kneel, but could not retain that position without 
support, nevertheless he was to all appearance in a state of 
flourishing health, and became so fat that he weighed 325 
kgrms., and gave 182 kgrms. (56 per cent.) as carcase weight. 
When he was opened all the viscera of the abdomen and 
chest were found to be normal; there was considerable ac¬ 
cumulation of fat around the kidneys and in the omentum 
and mesentery. All the muscles, instead of the usual red 
colour, were of a fine pinkish w r hite. The muscles of the 
interior of the body were whiter than those of the 
exterior, especially those of the buttock and longissimus 
dorsi. In examination of the muscular system one seemed 
rather to have to do with lard than with meat; the density 
of the muscles was increased. The marrow in the long 
bones was abnormally white. When M. Perroncito was in¬ 
formed of this animal being in the slaughter-house it had 
been already cut up and the quarters taken apart, so that 
the professor was unable to examine the nerve centres. The 
butcher who purchased it assured him that he had observed 
nothing special about them. Microscopical examination ot 
specimens, either fresh or preserved in alcohol or in Muller's 
fluid, showed that of the primitive bundles -some were 
atrophied, the others increased in size, that in two or three 
they were surrounded by fatty cells which compressed them. 
The nuclei were very abundant, but the sarcolemma con¬ 
tents did not seem to have undergone change. Between the 
nervous tubules at the terminal part of the ischiatic nerve 
were found fatty cells, similar to those between the fas¬ 
ciculi. When cooked and prepared as for food the meat 
