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as follows : temperature normal, respiration short and anxious, 
beatings of the heart and pulse normal. She is dull but at 
times is taken with convulsions. She had been bought only 
the day before and began to show her symptoms when put in 
her stall. Unable to make a diagnosis at a first visit, and 
noticing the difficulty of motion of the hind quarters of the 
animal, the author suspected a dropsical condition of the brmn 
and advised slaughtering. At the post-mortem and examina¬ 
tion of the cranial cavity he found lesions of fibrino-purulent 
pachymeningitis, and a rather large cyst filled with whitish 
points, which examined with a powerful magnifying lens 
proved to be hooks of taenia ccenurus.—( Clin. Veter .) 
REVIEW OF BIOLOGY. 
EndOGLOBUFAR FLematozoa OF Shefp [By Lavedan and 
Nicolle]. —In September and October last Mr. Nicolle observed 
in the vicinity of Constantinople a small epizooty in a flock of 
sheep. The principal symptoms were : fever, general dullness, 
diarrhoea, submaxillary oedema. Death occurred in two or 
three days or the animals would recover. The following les¬ 
ions were observed: slight exudation in the serous cavities, 
oedematous aspect of all the tissues, blood fluid and rosy in 
color, some ecchymosis under the pericardium, tumefaction of 
the entire ganglionary system, slight hypertrophy of the spleen, 
intestinal mucous membrane congested. The endoglobules of 
the blood contained round or oval parasites. Each parasitic 
element had a round or elongated karyosoma, situated on the 
periphery. Free parasitic elements were seen, in small num¬ 
ber comparatively to the endoglobular elements. The parasitic 
elements are much more numerous in the spleen than in the 
blood of the great circulation ; they had the same aspect but 
were larger. There were also elements in the way of division; 
they were more abundant than in the blood of the general 
circulation. This epizooty seemed identical with the disease 
called in Roumania carcurg , which Babes attributes to an 
haematococcus. It is probably the same that gave rise to the 
epizootics observed by Bonorne in the sheep of the surroundings 
of Padona. The endoglobular haematozoa of sheep is evidently 
closely related by its simple structure and made of endogenous 
reproduction of the parasite of Texas fever, piroplasma bigemi- 
num. The authors call it piraplasma ovis. —( Soc . de Biology.') 
