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largement was perceptible and the animal never lamed again.— 
(Translated from Le Bulletin Vetet inaire, Oct. ij.) — (E. M.) 
Geresa, in a recent number of La Chnica Veterinaria (Italy) 
gives the following interesting report of twelve neurectomies : 
i. Two operations for lameness resulting from nail pricks : (a) 
one was still working 39 months after the operation ; (b) the 
other was still working satisfactorily after 31 months. 2. Three 
operations for side bones ; (a) thirty-nine months after the op¬ 
eration one of them was still working without lameness ; ( b ) one 
year after the operation one of them was sold for other causes ; 
( c ) three months after the operation the other was still working 
satisfactorily. 3. Two operations for chronic laminitis : {a) one 
was sold on account of septic inflammation, about fifteen days 
after the operation ; (b) the other was sent to the abattoir for 
the same reason, two months after the operation. 4. Two oper¬ 
ations for navicular disease : (a) acute case was sold about four 
months later, because the hoof began to loosen ; (b) a sub-acute 
case lost its hoof about a year after the operation. 5. Three 
operations for chronic navicular disease : (a) one Derformed un¬ 
interrupted service for fifteen months, four months service at 
intervals, and was sent to the abattoir ; (b) one of them was still 
working twenty months after the operation ; (c) the remaining 
one performed uninterrupted work for seven months and was 
killed.— {Trans. — E. Mi) 
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GERMAN REVIEW. 
By Adoi.ph Eichhorn, D.V.S., New York City. 
Cancer of the Rectum in a Horse [By Prof . Olt ].~ 
The Pathological Institute received the rectum of a five-year- 
old gelding, which was destroyed on account of an obstruction 
of the rectum caused by tumors, and found 26 cm. of the mu¬ 
cous membrane of the rectum covered by horned-plate epithe- 
lia. In this abnormal skin-like mucous membrane islands of 
normal rectal mucous membrane sharply defined were present, 
15 cm. from the anus, and from which, 20 cm. anteriorly, the 
space contained belt-shaped nodular tumors, of a partly de¬ 
stroyed and ulcerated character. The rectal wall, 9 cm. thick 
on section, consisted of solid grayish nodules, inclosed in dense 
connective tissue, varying in size from a pea to a hen’s egg. 
