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carbolic acid dressing was then applied as on the previous day. 
On the 13th the growth had yet much shrunk away, and 
there remained so little of it that the ligature was taken off, and 
the balance of the peduncle of the tumor dissected out, the edges 
of the wound being carefully cleaned of all mortitied tissue. 
There remained then on the top of the tail a cavity about 2£ 
inches long and 1£ wide, and nearly one inch deep. The wound 
was dressed antiseptically with carbolized oakum and bandage. 
From this day till the 24th, when the animal was. discharged 
with a very small superficial ulcer as the remains of her former 
difficulty, the wound gradually proceeded towards granulation, 
and with the removal of a few minute specks of melanotic deposits 
presented no difficulty towards radical recovery. The only fear 
that can be entertained to that effect is the fact, that though no 
other growth could be detected upon any part of the body, there 
existed at the inferior face of the tail a small tumor scarcely the 
size of a hazel nut, whose growth, after all, as in the history of 
such degenerations, may be stimulated by the removal of the for¬ 
mer tumor. 
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BRIGHT’S DISEASE IN THE DOG. 
By M. A. Mathis. 
A setter thirteen years old presented the following symptoms : 
disposition quiet, capricious appetite, constipation, great thirst, 
abundant micturition, greatly marked lean condition. A diagno¬ 
sis of diabetes is made which is not confirmed by examination of 
the urine—but in both the nitric acid test and heat show great 
quantities of albumin. After a few days the animal died, and at 
the post mortem the diagnosis of chronic Bright’s disease was 
confirmed. 1st, general arteritis and periarteritis well marked; 2nd 
slerosis by extension of the vascular lesions; 3rd atrophy and de¬ 
generation, disparition of the epithelium, obliteration of the eanuli 
uriniferi, and formation of miliary cysts. The heart was some¬ 
what hypertrophied and the mitral valve thickened .—Journal 
de Zootechnie. 
