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was necessary to keep her lying down and on the back to facili¬ 
tate the expulsion of the foetus. The cow died a few hours af¬ 
terwards from infectious peritonitis. ... In the mare, the 
tumor was better defined and the diagnosis, readily made by 
physical signs, was also justified by the results of the rectal ex¬ 
amination. She had a colt some two months previous, but six 
weeks before she showed a little tumor in front of the mammae. 
After her delivery the tumor enlarged considerably. The mare 
was destroyed. At the post-mortem, a transversal section of 
the prepnbic tendons and of the two straight muscles, a short 
distance in front of the pubis, was found. 
Plastic Tinitis or Sclerosis of Muscular Coat of the 
Stomach in Dogs. —Prof. Dienaux borrows this name from hu¬ 
man medicine and applies it to a lesion which he has found at 
the post-mortem of a dog. The animal was brought to him with 
the history that for several months he had been suffering with 
diarrhoea, which had resisted all forms of treatment. The dog 
had a splendid appetite, but was losing flesh all the time. He 
passed his food entirely undigested. A careful examination of 
the abdomen permitted the detection of a hard, large and fixed 
tumor, in the lower half of the post diaphragmatic region. The 
dog was destroyed. The tumor proved to be the stomach ; it 
seemed dilated, its consistency is firm, hard ; it does not give to 
pressure, except here and there. Cut open, the mucuous mem¬ 
brane is smooth and thinned out, it adheres intimately to the 
muscular coat, which is considerably thickened, measuring on 
the great curvature 28 millimeters near the cardia, and 20 at 
the pylorus ; along the small curvature, near the cardia, it meas¬ 
ures II millimeters. The peritoneal coat is sound. By micro¬ 
scopical examination, the great increase of the fibrous tissue, 
and the minority of the muscular element, demonstrated that 
it was more a case of sclerosis than one of simple hyper¬ 
trophy. The nature of the lesions were sufficient to explain the 
troubles of digestion presented by the animal ; it is to be noted 
that symptoms of vomiting did not occur during the whole 
length of the disease .—{^Annales de BritxeUes.) 
GERMAN REVIEW. 
I>y W. V. Bieser, I). V. S., New York City. 
A Contribution to the So-Called Borna’s Disease.— 
In a certain place during 1895-1896, five horses were stricken 
