EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
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EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
BELGIAN REVIEW. 
Foreign Bodies in a Horse and in a Cow [By Prof. Hend- 
rickx ].—As the author remarks, how strange foreign bodies some¬ 
times behave when once introduced in the organism of an animal. 
As a proof, read the two cases that he records : (i) Afour-and-a- 
lialf-year-old horse was brought to him for a small wound a little 
below and in front of the right scapulo-humeral joint. Much 
pus was discharged and the leg had to be cleaned several times 
a day. The history of the animal was simple :—Four years 
before, when a colt, he was found one day very lame ; he had 
only a little scratch in front of the shoulder ; he was treated 
and the lameness disappeaied, yet the discharge kept up. When 
two years old he was broken to work and since has been work¬ 
ing, free from lameness and still discharging. The wound was 
probed with difficulty and found running upwards towards the 
withers. The animal was cast and at the point where the probe 
seemed to end, an incision was made. It was 8 or io centi¬ 
meters deep ; at its bottom the continuation of the fistula was 
found and at last the bottom reached, from which a piece of a 
walking stick was extracted. It was one inch in diameter and 
twenty-one centimeters long. It had traveled 38 or 40 centi¬ 
meters from its place of entrance, below the shoulder joint. 
The animal kept it four years in his muscles without apparent 
trouble, not even the slightest disturbance in locomotion. (2) 
A cow, coming back from the field, seemed ailing. She 
groaned, refused her food, had colic and tympanites. She was 
bled at the jugular, fed on low diet for 24 hours, and then ap¬ 
peared in perfect health. Three days after a swelling as big as 
a hen’s egg showed itself between the second and third lum¬ 
bar vertebrae and in its centre a little black point was felt. It 
was taken hold with forceps and a rib of an umbrella sixty-one 
centimeters long was extracted. This rib was perfectly straight 
and it is a question how as such it was possible for the cow to 
swallow it and be sick only for a few hours afterwards. 
—iAnnales de Bruxelles .) 
Ovariotomy with Elastic Ligature. —Several months 
ago an article appeared in the Annales de Bruxelles , a transla¬ 
tion by Prof. Hendrickx of a paper published by a Swiss veteri¬ 
narian (Mr. Bertschy), in which are several practical observa¬ 
tions on ovariotomy. The author recommended the application 
