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have also been observed as they had been on the right leg.— 
(A/males de Bruxelles .) 
FRENCH REVIEW. 
Escape and Resorption of Two Fcetuses in the Ab¬ 
dominal Cavity of a Slut [By M. L. Blanc ].— A hunting 
slut had become sick a few days after giving birth to two pup¬ 
pies. She was dull, quiet, without any apparent pain ; her 
abdomen had become very large and fluctuating ; she became 
cachectic and died. At the post-mortem, on opening the abdo¬ 
men, about two litres of thick, reddish fluid, almost odorless, 
was found, in which floated a large number of black and greyish 
hairs, some single, others gathered round a hard substance and 
forming round or oval agagropiles of various sizes. These were 
situated a little everywhere between the abdominal wall and the 
intestines, between the intestinal circumvolutions and even be¬ 
tween the liver and the diaphragm. Besides these little masses 
of hairs and bones were also found—the bones (ribs, cranial 
and some of the extremities) were free from soft parts. Loose 
nucleii of ossification of the vertebrae and finally two small foetal 
heads at times were discovered in the fold of the mesentery. 
All these pieces were perfectly macerated ; there were no soft 
tissues, only the hairs remained. On examining the uterus, 
the right horn showed two ovoid swellings between which ex¬ 
isted a gaping laceration, with colorless borders, from which es¬ 
caped a few hairs similar to those found in the abdomen. Other 
lesions less important and not related to the injury of the uterus 
were also found ; but ail the other organs were healthy.— 
[Jo 7 irn. de Zobtechnie.') 
Wound of the Chest—Death by Secondary Haemor¬ 
rhage [By E. Nard and P. Bergecni\ .— A mare received a 
blow from an English cart, and one of the shafts entered the 
chest between the shoulder and the thorax on a level with the 
point of the shoulder. The shaft broke and remained in the 
wound. Abundant haemorrhage took place, and at every move¬ 
ment of the animal a peculiar sucking noise was heard. Al¬ 
though the prospects of recovery seemed doubtful, the wound 
was packed with hydrophite cotton and the haemorrhage arrested. 
With a great deal of difficulty, after removing the plug of cot¬ 
ton, the piece of shaft was extracted. It measured 27 centi¬ 
metres in length. The wound was treated with a great deal of 
antiseptic measures and everything seemed to progress favorably, 
