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foot formed a large, ugly looking wound, covered with maggots 
and with a very repulsive odor; still, large healthy granulations 
covered the stump of the leg. An order was given to the owner 
to have the poor brute destroyed; an order which he again 
refused to carry out. Six weeks afterwards the animal was seen 
in apparently perfect health ; the three phalanges were gone, but 
the stump remained almost in its entirety, and healed. The ani¬ 
mal walked slowly without evincing much pain, but was lame on 
three legs when made to trot. He was at length destroyed. 
Two months had nearly elapsed from the day on which he was 
pricked to that on which he was killed .—Recueil de Medecine 
Velerinaire. 
ENCEPHALOID CARCINOMA.—DEATH. 
By Me. Teasbot. 
This horse had an encephaloid carcinoma of one testicle, for 
which he had been operated upon. The operation had been suc¬ 
cessful, and everything in his condition seemed to indicate a rapid 
recovery. Instead of this, however, a febrile condition seemed to 
show itself on the following day, and general symptoms of an in¬ 
ternal affection became manifest. The suspicion of general 
carcinomatous infection was entertained, and in twenty-four hours, 
confirmed beyond the reach of a doubt. A firm, indolent, diffuse 
and incompletely defined tumor, round in shape, soon made its 
appearance in the right flank. Rectal exploration gave the sen. 
sation in the sub-lumbar region of* an enormous mass, bosselated, 
extending forward beyond the reach of the hand, and backwards 
beyond the bifurcation of the aorta. During the following days 
the symptoms became aggravated, and after four days of suffer¬ 
ing the animal was destroyed—fourteen days after the first opera¬ 
tion. At the autopsy, the wound of castration, though partly 
healed, had, nevertheless, a bad appearance. The pleural cavity 
was about normal. Between the layers of the anterior medias¬ 
tinum was a group of tumors, of various sizes, weighing over five 
pounds (2 kilogrammes, 600 grammes). In the abdomen there 
was an enormous neoplasm of the same nature and aspect, and 
weighing twenty-six pounds (13 kilogrammes). These two masses 
