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of the authors is a sufficient guarantee of the value of this 
promised work, which is another illustration of the wonderful 
strides which Italian veterinary literature is making in the 
present day. The importance of the study of parasitic dis¬ 
orders of birds in relation to those of mammals, the frequency 
of epizootics among our domestic fowls, and especially the 
questions of intense importance to pathology, human and 
comparative, now pending Pasteur's investigations on 
fowl cholera, will doubtless lead to great success of this 
work. 
The Annales de Medecine Veterinaire of July, 1880, 
extracts from the Revue Mensuelle de Medecine et de Chi - 
7'urgie a most interesting case of “ Accidental Injury of the 
Sigmoid Gyrus of a Dog,” by Dr. Arloing. The accom¬ 
plished professor at the Veterinary School of Lyons cites this 
as “ the first observation showing, in a very evident manner, 
the happy practical application which may be made of the 
physiological information recently acquired of the effects of 
electrical excitation and removal of certain portions of the 
grey cortex of the brain to the diagnosis, prognosis, and 
treatment of certain contusions and contused wounds of the 
cranial region.” The patient, a King Charles’ spaniel, re¬ 
ceived a wound in the frontal region, and it was not possible 
by exploration to determine whether the brain was injured 
or not. But “ the local symptoms were complicated with 
disturbances of motion and sensibility. When the animal 
was resting or walking straight no appreciable change could 
be observed in his attitude or gait, but if he was made to 
run diminution in power of the right limbs was rendered 
very evident. The fore right limb struck against the least 
roughness of the ground. Often the radio-carpal articula¬ 
tion became sharply flexed, and the anterior surface of the 
metacarpus and phalanges met the ground. When the dog 
seemed to run normally attentive observation showed that 
just when he lifted the right foot the metacarpo-phalangeal 
articulation was thrown sharply upwards and forwards, as if 
it oscillated at the extremity of the forearm. The hind limb 
(right) is slightly abducted when the animal is standing still 
or moving slowly, and the same limb yielded under the 
weight of the animal when he moved towards the correspond¬ 
ing side. In jumping up for a tit-bit the dog often fell over 
towards the right. Again, while he was occupied in drink¬ 
ing the right legs might be moved without him noticing 
it, but any attempt to move the left legs led to resumption 
of the original posture; also there was a certain loss of sen¬ 
sibility of the right half of the body, and an interference 
