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Lanzillotti-Buonsaiiti records this case from the clinics of the 
Milan Veterinary School. A roan gelding, of common breed, 
for the last month had a swollen sheath, gradually increasing, 
painless, warm and oedematons. The hand introduced with 
difficulty through the preputial opening meets with a foetid 
magna and broken tissue. The penis cannot be reached. It is 
evident that the animal micturates in the cavity of its sheath 
and that the urine collects more or less into it. The diagnosis 
is evident. It is a case of acrobystitis with stenosis of the pre¬ 
puce, due to the shortness of the penis. . The treatment con¬ 
sisted in an incision on the median line of the lower skin of the 
prepuce, with the removal, V shape, of a portion of skin on 
both sides, with suturing of the external and internal cutaneous 
folds on each side of the incision. This was made sufficiently 
long to reach the free extremity of the penis. The cicatriza¬ 
tion of the edges of -the wound demanded but little time to take 
place, and in some three weeks the animal was able to resume 
his work.— {^Clinica Veterinaria?) 
Trauma of the Heart in a- Cow \By Mr. Sismoiido 
Ussar \.—This is not an unusual case, interesting principally by 
the extent of the lesions which were found at post-mortem. 
The symptoms presented by the animal having been those of 
similar injury, but having been overlooked or neglected, and the 
animal having died suddenly, the author was called to make the 
autopsy. The cause of death was a long sewing needle which 
had penetrated from the reticulum into the thorax, through the 
diaphragm and passing to the pericardium and the substance 
of the heart, had given rise to serious lesions and a fatal com¬ 
plication. ^—( Clinica Veterinarian 
A Queer Treatment for Indigestion in Cattue.— 
The Giornale della Reale Societa Veterinaria is responsible for 
this. It seems that in some parts of Italy, where empiricism 
flourishes, its partisans use frequently the following treatment, 
and it is said to be successful. When an animal is taken sick, 
it is made to swallow the whole skin and feathers of a black 
fowl. TliQ feathers of the fowl must be thoroughly black and 
the comb of the animal well developed, free from scabs and of a 
rubilant red color. The best part of the treatment is that while 
the bovine struggles the best it can, the empiric eats the meat 
of the children, a big plate of salad, two pounds of bread and 
drinks a quart of good wine. 
SuuFURET OF Carbone AND BoTS. —Mr. Ruyarti has given 
to two horses, in the space of six hours, six gelatine capsules 
