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REPORTS OF CASES. 
fected. Our attention was first called to the animal by its pe¬ 
culiar gait, manifested by dragging the hind extremities, as 
though they were paralyzed. The entire act of locomotion 
seemed to be attended with considerable difficulty. Suspect¬ 
ing something wrong, the animal was tagged with a metalic 
tag, for the purpose of identification, post-mortem. The post¬ 
mortem examination as far as the viscerse were concerned was 
negative. All the organs were seemingly healthy. There was no 
more fat deposited upon the viscerae than in the average fat na¬ 
tive steer slaughtered at this establishment. It was not until the 
carcass was quartered that the peculiar fatty condition of the 
muscular structures was observed. What is termed by butchers 
the “ rib roasts ” (muscles of the dorsal region) were found to 
be composed of a brittle fat, of the consistency of suet. In por¬ 
tions, notably between the eighth and tenth ribs, traces of mus¬ 
cular tissue were discoverable ; but even here there was so 
much infiltrated fat that the muscles appeared pale and waxy. 
Most marked were the lesions in the hind-quarters. The 
gluteal muscles, notably in the anterior, external and internal 
regions, were simply clumps of fat, with not even a trace of 
muscular tissue discernable to the naked eye. Slices were pre¬ 
pared and placed under the microscope, and gave the character¬ 
istic appearance of fatty degeneration. 
Upon a rapid examination of veterinary books at our dis¬ 
posal, we have failed to find an account or report of a like case 
as that briefly described above. The disease which “ human 
physicians ” term “ Pseudo-hypertrophic Muscular Paralysis ” 
seems to be the same pathological condition. 
LYMPHANGITIS AND HYPERTROPHIED HOOF FROM CALKING. 
By W. L. West, V. S., Belfast, Maine. 
The Review arrives with unfailing regularity and its ad¬ 
vent and perusal form one of the bright spots in my life. I wish 
to thank you for the many good things you have given us in 
the past year, and know they will be continued in 1898. 
I had a somewhat unusual case not long since and will give 
you a brief account of it. 
Subject, a bay gelding of gross, plethoric, lymphatic tem¬ 
perament. I was called to treat him for furuncles of the su¬ 
perior cervical region, occasioned partially by a bad fitting and 
, dirty harness and partly from an irritable and badly nourished 
skin. I advised rest; gave a liberal purge, poulticed, and later 
incised the boils, instructed the owner to feed no grain and give 
