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pleted by first intention. In the first case operated by the 
author adhesive cicatrization was thorough in the entire wound, 
except in one spot, where there was a cutaneous slough. In 
the second cicatrization by first intention was typical.—( Clin - 
ica Veterinarian) 
Primitive Traumatic Sero-Bloody Effusion of the 
Withers [By Prof. Lanzillotti-Buonsanti ^\.—Two cases of 
this nature are recorded by the author in which a slight modi¬ 
fication in the treatment was followed, but both recovered in a 
very short time. In the first case it was a single effusion on 
the left side of the withers, with causes unknown, which had 
resisted treatment with blisters. The diagnosis had been 
easily made and confirmed with explorating puncture. The 
treatment consisted in a single incision, some 12 centimeters 
long, which allowed the escape of about 200 cubic centimeters 
of liquid ; the cavity was scraped, all foreign bloody extravasa¬ 
tions, connective tissue shreds and mortified muscular fibres 
were removed, a drain tube inserted and the wound closed with 
interrupted sutures. Repeated irrigations through the drain 
with sublimated solution were followed by rapid cicatrization. 
In the second case, the cyst was still larger, involving both 
sides of the withers. The modus operandi was somewhat dif¬ 
ferent. After removing by a puncture made with a trocar on 
the top of the tumor the liquid that it contained, say some 400 
cubic centimeters, two incisions were made in front and back 
of the lower part of the cyst on the left side, and through these 
two drain tubes were inserted and brought out at the point 
where the puncture had been made and which had been en¬ 
larged by a short cut of the bistoury. Similar manipulations 
were made for the right side. With a spoon of Volkmann the 
walls of the cyst were scraped, the clots of fibronic and small 
moving bodies of connective tissue were removed. The after 
treatment consisted in repeated irrigations of sublimate solu¬ 
tions. Sixteen days after the drain tubes were removed, and to 
hasten the absorption of the swelling, a round strong blister 
was applied. In four weeks from the operation, recovery was 
complete .—(Clinica Veterinaria.) 
Congenital Stenosis of the Cardia [By Dr. A. Gas- 
parini \.—Two days after birth, a young colt began to exhibit 
regurgitations of milk and saliva, which reappeared periodically 
every six or eight days. A month later, the neck became de¬ 
formed, and on the left side there appeared a swelling, cylin- 
droid in form, about the size of a fist, and which extended in 
