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from other facts concerned with the sanitary regulations at¬ 
tached to the management of the disease and the greater facility 
of diagnosis offered by the use of mallein, the author expressed 
the opinion that “ there can be no doubt that glanders is a dis¬ 
ease which might easily be stamped out of Great Britain.”_ 
( Vet. Record}) 
B'ractured Rib with Perforation of Thorax in a 
Cow.—A cow having gone astray during the night, writes Mr. 
J. H. Parker, M. R. C. V. S., was found the next morning with 
a wound on her right side. Shortly after her arrival at home she 
gave birth to two healthy calves. When seen by Mr. P. she 
had a large triangular wound between the tenth and eleventh 
ribs, through which air was rushing in and out, synchronous 
with the respirations. The last three ribs were fractured and 
there was considerable flattening on that side. The wound was 
closed with a suture, a pad of flour and water on a piece of 
linen was placed over it and held in position by a bed sheet 
stitched as firmly as possible round the cow. This was removed 
a month later. The cow recovered entirely with a flattening of 
the side where the fracture existed.—( Vet. Record.) 
ITAIvIAN REVIEW. 
Abortion in a Cow—Seven Fcetuses \By Dr. Ferdi- 
navdo \.—The subject was a good milking cow, seven years old, 
which for the previous four years had regularly given birth to 
one calf. About two hundred days pregnant, her abdomen is a 
little larger than in previous gestations, but not to any excess. 
On May 24th, she began to show signs of abortion by the escape 
of mucosities from the vulva and some abdominal pains. At 
eleven o’clock in the morning she dropped her first foetus and 
some three hours later she had already thrown out three. She 
remained quiet for several hours, when the pains returned and 
were followed by the expulsion of four more foetuses. The first 
foetus was a male, the second a female, and it thus kept on until 
the end of the abortion, when four males and three females had 
been dropped. The average weight of the animals was between 
7 and 8 kilogs. and each one was well formed. Notwithstand¬ 
ing a careful removal of the placentae and antiseptic attention 
to the parts, putrefaction set in and the animal ^\VA.—{Clmica 
Veterinaria.) 
Stenosis of the Prepuce Resulting from Acrobys- 
TiTis AND Shortness of the Penis in a Horse.—P rof. 
