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EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
FRENCH REVIEW. 
Intestinal Perforation in a Mule—Abdominal Ab¬ 
scesses—Splenic Haemorrhage—Peritonitis. —How true 
the author was when he wrote : “ So much was not necessary to 
kill the poor animal.” Mr. Piot Bey relates that the animal was 
shown to him because of its having been affected with light colics 
for six or seven days back. At his visit he finds the animal 
very sick with symptoms of abdominal trouble ; orders her to be 
taken back to her stable, where she lies down and dies in the 
afternoon. At the post-mortem extensive lesions of various 
natures are found. On opening the abdomen, marks of exten¬ 
sive peritonitis are found (abundant collection of bloody serosity, 
coloration of the intestines, engorged condition of the perito¬ 
neum). At the sternal curvature the colon is adherent to the 
median line near the xyphoid cartilage, and there is found an 
abscess as big as an egg, containing a pus similar to that found 
in strangles. Through the folds of the great omentum, another 
of the same size and nature is also opened. The spleen presents 
on its internal surface a projecting nodosity, covered with a clot 
of blood, intimately united to the organ ; the removal of this clot 
exposes a straight laceration of the splenic capsula. This no¬ 
dosity extends into the spleen, and is in continuation with its 
intimate structure. On the small intestine there is an almost 
straight perforation, some three centimetres long, with edges 
ragged, ecchymosed, ulcerated (evidently anlesion). 
The other organs were comparatively healthy. While the 
author is satisfied to attribute the abscesses to a gourmy dia¬ 
thesis, he is at a loss to explain the lesions of the spleen or those 
of the intestines.— {^Rec. de Med. Vet.) 
Strangulation of the Intestines by the Peduncle of 
A Lipoma. —The presence of lipomas in the abdominal cavity^ 
attached on the peritoneal folds of the mesentery, is well known, 
and many have been found at post-mortems of animals where 
they had remained harmless. But unfrequently also they are 
the cause of .severe alterations in the situation of abdominal or¬ 
gans and give rise to serious or even fatal results. MM. Rochard,. 
Durand and Magnin report, in the Recueil de Med. Vet.^ the case 
of a 16-year-old gelding, which was taken with colics, and, not¬ 
withstanding treatment, died in a few hours. At the post¬ 
mortem they found on the mesentery at about 6 metres (say i8 
