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dav of his sickness was submitted to anti tetanic serum, of which 
he received lo c.c every day for six days. He recovered in 15 
days.— (yjoicr. de Zootechnie.') 
Myxomatous Tumor of the IvEFT Ventricle of a Cow 
\^By Mr. V. Larriie\ .—Called to see a cow which had been ail¬ 
ing for a few days, the author remarked that the digestive 
function is regular, nothing seems wrong in the respiratory ap¬ 
paratus, temperature normal, the beatings of the heart regular. 
After a few days the condition is somewhat altered and evi¬ 
dently more alarming. The appetite is gone, there is no rumi¬ 
nation, the jugular veins are enormously distended. There is no 
venous pulse, beatings of the heart are weak and dull; pulse 
small and accelerated. Hungs healthy. Supposing a cardial 
affection, whose nature is not established, the animal is placed 
under a treatment of digitalis powder. For a few days the cow 
seemed to improve, and then died. At the post-mortem the 
pericardium was found distended by an abundant exudate. 
The left ventricle contained, hanging to the cardiac wall, a 
tumor as big as a large pear, weighing about 200 grammes, 
which on microscopical examination proved to be a myxoma 
and not a lipoma, as it seemed to be at first by its appearance.— 
{Progres Veterin a ire .) 
BELGIAN REVIEW. 
Ventral Hernia \By Prof. A. Degive\. — In the Janu¬ 
ary issue of the Aiinales de Bruxelles the learned director of 
the Veterinary School of Cureghem relates the history of two 
cases of this affection of great interest, one in a cow, the other 
in a mare, in which the dimensions of the hernial tumor were 
enormous in both animals, probably of similar causation and 
presenting about the same lesion, viz., extensive rupture of the 
abdominal muscles, the straight, the great and small oblique, 
and also of the prepubic tendon. In the cow, the tumor was 
enormous, reaching so near the ground that one of the teats of 
the udder had been stepped on by the animal and torn off. All 
the functions seemed to be perfectly normal, except of course 
the difficulties that the want of proper muscular contraction may 
bring to the function of defecation. The animal was pregnant 
of her sixth calf. The cause of this lesion could not be found 
out. As the time of her delivery was close at hand the animal 
was kept for a few days under observation. One morning she 
gave signs of laboring pains ; she was delivered of a calf. It 
