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ing" indisposed, received a dose of castor oil. The same day, 
jumping over the door of his kennel, he fell down, and, after a 
few convulsions, died suddenly. His post-mortem proved most 
interesting. The abdomen, filled with uncoagulated blood, 
showed in the lumbar region a laceration of the peritoneum, 
opening into a large snbserous pouch, at the bottom of which 
was found the left kidney, which presented a solution of con¬ 
tinuity, three centimeters long, on the convex external border 
of the organ, with irregular edges; the solution of continuity 
was filled with clots. A clot was found in the ramifications of 
the renal artery, distributed in the centre of the laceration. To 
find the primitive cause of this arterial lesion, the circulatory 
apparatus was carefully examined. Numerous vegetations were 
found on the mitral valve. The ventricle contained some twenty 
strongyli. The lungs were heavy, sank in water, and when cut 
through showed, on pressure, small masses of worms rolled and 
contained in the pulmonary artery. This dog was affected with 
cardio-pnlmonary strongylosis and endocarditis of the left heart; 
both being the evident causes of death. The valvular vegeta¬ 
tions and the fibrinous deposits had evidently given rise to 
nephritic embolisms .—{Revue Veter}) 
Large Subcutaneous Myxoma in Dog By J. B. 
Scoffie'] .—This dog was brought to the author for a large tumor 
existing for some time, and which recently has assumed large 
dimensions, disfiguring the animal and undermining its general 
condition. The growth was the size of a man’s head, measuring 
19 centimeters in the antero-posterior diameter, 10 in the trans¬ 
versal, and 35 in the circumference at the base. The mass hung 
from the tenth rib to the coxo-femoral joint; it was movable ; its 
surface was smooth, the skin over it was supple, but stretched. 
The consistency was soft, fluctuating here and there, and one 
point gave the sensation of liquid enclosed under the skin. The 
general condition was much affected, the appetite capricious, 
strength reduced, the prognosis serious. On exploration with 
trocar there was escape of colloid fluid mixed with yellow, soft, 
gelatinous masses, which soon filled the trocar. A free incision 
was made, and the entire cavity emptied. But when suppura¬ 
tion was established, the general symptoms became^ more 
marked, and the animal was destroyed. Minute examination 
of the part showed the neoplasm to be a pure^ myxoma; a 
benignant growth, which had, however, given rise to serious 
disturbance of general nutrition by its enormous development.— 
^Revue Veter}) 
