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were easily separated into smaller ones. Some of them are of 
older origin ; were hard, greyish in color, and on section, showed 
a white, milky, abundant fluid, while others were more friable, 
milky, of a uniform rosy color, with here and there a hemor¬ 
rhagic centre and are evidently of new formation. 
Evidently, the first operation had stimulated a more rapid 
development in all these previously indolent, internal tumors.— 
Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire. 
BILIARY CALCULUS.—RUPTURE OF THE GALL BLADDER. 
By M. Cagny. 
A.n ox was taken ill, and treated for indigestion of the third 
stomach, presenting no remarkable symptoms, and dying in a 
few hours. The post-mortem revealed lesions of the most acute 
attack of peritonitis, with an effusion of bloody serosity, mixed 
with bile. The peritoneum had assumed the color of bile. The 
gall bladder was torn through its serous and muscular coats, the 
mucus membrane being yet intact. In the narrow portion of the 
sac, however, there was a laceration, three inches in length, 
through which the bile had escaped. The calculus was found at 
the extremity of the ductus communis choledoch us, near the in¬ 
testinal opening. It was roughened at one extremity, probably 
by the contact of the food. In weight it was about two grammes 
and nearly one and a half inches in length .—Recueil de Medecine 
Veterinaire. 
HERNIA OF CASTRATION.—WOUND OF THE INTESTINE, WITH 
LOSS OF SUBSTANCE.—RECOVERY. 
By M. Collins. 
The patient was a newly purchased three-year-old colt, which 
had been castrated a few days previously to his change of owner¬ 
ship. The day following the purchase his owner discovered that a 
mass of foecal matter had escaped through the wound of castration. 
When seen by the author he seemed to manifest but little uneasi¬ 
ness, but showed no evidence of pain. He was gay; his appetite 
was good and his pulse and respiration normal. He would occa¬ 
sionally exhibit some movements more or less violent, and a cer¬ 
tain quantity of alimentary mass was still escaping through the 
