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REPORTS OF CASES. 277 
FIBROUS MYOMA OF THE SMALL INTESTINE IN A MARE. 
By M. Cadeao. 
The subject of this report was losing flesh for about three 
weeks, and was suffering with intermittent, slight chilly pains 
after each meal. She soon died, and the post-mortem revealed the 
following lesions: Rupture of the stomach, with a tumor of the 
size of a child’s head, at about a yard and a half from the pylo¬ 
rus. This was irregularly globular, hard, of a gray whitish 
color and surrounded the intestine in a muff-like manner, being 
narrowed in its central diameter. This was the cause of the 
rupture of the stomach, it having interfered with the passage of 
the food. Examined microscopically, it proved to be a fibrous 
myoma, constituted in great part of fasciculi, parallel or inter¬ 
crossed, and more or less undulated. Each fasciculus con .ained 
fusiform cells, with large nuclei irregularly scattered round. 
Some of those cells were in process of formation, and others 
were undergoing granulo-fatty degeneration.— Ibid. 
REPORTS OF CASES, 
ASCITES IN A HEN. 
By B McInnes, Jb., V.S. 
Having a fine Leghorn hen. about three years old, in seemingly 
good condition, and depositing eggs regularly, I noticed that she 
was getting very large in the abdomen and unable to fly up to 
roost. I thought she had a large tumor of some kind in her. I 
caught her one day when she seemed to be almost exhausted from 
the heat and the weight she was carrying, and to my surprise 
found she had dropsy. I do not think I can say ascites abdomin- 
alis, there being no diaphragm in the fowl, and the fluid evidently 
filled the whole cavity. I tapped the abdomen by making an 
incision about one inch long, when there must have not less 
than three pints of a water white fluid escaped from her. I put 
one stitch in the opening, and she seemed perfectly relieved, and 
what is mere remarkable, kept on deposi'ing eggs. About three 
