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animal became quiet. The after treatment consisted in embro¬ 
cation of boricated vaseline in the rectum. Three days after 
the operation the mule passed her faeces herself, and from that 
began to improve in condition. Her recovery was complete on 
the tenth day.— {Rev. Veterm) 
Dystokia by Hxcess of Volume of the Calf Complicated 
BY Eiv^hysema or by Cysts {^By H. A. Morel ].—five ob¬ 
servations recorded by the author are very interesting and the 
conclusions essential to the veterinary obstetricians. In one 
case it was a calf of large size, with extensive hypertroph}'^ of the 
skin and of the subcutaneous cellular tissue and having cervical 
cysts ; in another the calf was monstrous in size ; in three others, 
besides the large development of the animal, there was general 
emphysema. In four of the cases the operation of embrvotomy 
had to be performed ; complete in three of them, part'^of the 
foetus (the head) had to be left in the other. Of these four, the 
one in which the embryotomy was incomplete recovered,^ but 
remained very delicate ; two died ; one only got well. Vhe 
Caesarian operation was performed on the fifth animal, who died 
also. Mr. Morel says : “ As soon as the diagnosis is made, ad¬ 
vise the slaughtering of the animal rather than to attempt the 
extraction of the calf, horced extraction alwavs failed. Em¬ 
bryotomy is always long, painful and its success is not always 
certain. The only rational indication is the Caesarian opera¬ 
tion .”—de Med. Vet.) 
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Proceedings of the United States Veterinary Medical Assf)CiAT[ON, Session 
1898 Edited by the Publication Committee, 'W. 1.. Williams, Chairman. Ithaca, 
JN. Y. ; Printed for the Association. 
Promptly at the announced date, the neat volume containing 
the proceedings of the thirty-fifth annual meeting was delivered 
at the post-office for transmissal to the members, the one ad¬ 
dressed to the Editor of the Review arriving on November i. 
In some respects the present edition is superior to any of its 
predecessors, while otherwise it is of equal merit. For the first 
time the entire edition is bound in cloth, as it should be, for 
surely it is of sufficient importance to a veterinary librarv to 
entitle it to a permanent position upon the shelf, and as a con¬ 
tribution to professional literature it will form a valuable refer¬ 
ence work for many years. 
While fewer pages are occupied, the text has been more care- 
