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side a hard, globular mass, which is easily defined, is of the size 
of a man’s head and is adherent to another tumor as big as the 
fist, possibly the head of the expected foetus, which is evidently 
dead. The owner was then informed that this state of affairs 
might last for a long time or that the cow might at an unknown 
time deliver. Four months after the cow was taken with pains 
and the owner extracted, from her vagina, a mass of bony con¬ 
sistency, weighing between fourteen and sixteen pounds. It 
was the foetus which had remained in the uterus exactly 390 
days.— {Joii}'. of Zodtech.^ Oct.^ '^ 97 ') 
PURUI.ENT Infection Foeeowing Chronic Endome¬ 
tritis \ 13 y Mr. Jacolin '\.—This case is reported with the ob¬ 
ject of showing that in practice a practitioner is not justifiable 
in overlooking the possibilities of a purulent chronic metritis, 
even if it had existed for some time and to all appearances com¬ 
patible with perfect health. The subject was a mare, 13 years 
old, which at different times had had a discharge from the vulva, 
which was considered as harmless and did not interfere with her 
work, until at last she was again attacked, when the flow was 
more abundant, soiling the hind quarters of the animal. She was 
treated and relieved by antiseptic vaginal douches. All went 
well for some five months, during which the mare did good 
work, when one day she became very lame on the left hind leg, 
which was diagnosticated as of acute rheumatoid nature. But 
the trouble increased : general condition assuming severe pains 
and high fever, swelling of the hock, warm, oedematous and 
painful, which soon increased and spread upwards and down¬ 
wards. Eater on, the right hind leg became affected in the same 
manner to such an extent that standing, which had been very 
painful and uneasy, became impossible, and. the mare had to 
remain lying most of the time. An abscess had formed in the 
fetlock, which ulcerated and contained a semi-consistant fluid, 
yellow-reddish, bloody, and then dark red wine color. This series 
of symptoms kept on increasing until after four days of great 
suffering the animal died suddenly. At the post-mortem all the 
lesions of septic poisoning were found, with infiltration of the 
muscular structure of the extremities, lesions of the kidneys, the 
liver, the lungs, etc. Besides all those there was a cancerous 
growth, as big as a child’s head and weighing in the neighbor¬ 
hood of five pounds, of encephaloid sarcomatous nature and of 
old standing, which was situated in front and a little to the left 
of the right kidney.— {Rec. Med. Vet., Dec., ’p/.) 
Infectious Paraplegia [A> Mr. L. .—Under 
