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No diagnosis was made of her case, and she was placed under 
observation with expectant treatment. 
In a few days, she grew rapidly worse, and though her appe¬ 
tite had returned, through active tonic treatment, and her food 
was abundant and varied, she was afterwards sold and destroyed. 
At the post-mortem the most remarkable lesion found was an 
increase in size and weight of the liver. This organ weighed 
ten kilograms (twenty pounds). It had lost its coloration and 
normal consistency. The surface was rough, bosselated in its 
whole extent, and covered with cancerous nodosities, of the 
encephaloid variety, varying in size. These tumors were round, 
whitish, soft and easily torn by the fingers. They occupied not 
only the surface, but the entire structure of the liver, in the form 
of infiltration. The tissue proper of the liver was atrophied and 
discolored. Along the course of the small intestiue, in their first 
portion, on a level with the mesenteric glands, a glanglionic mass 
infiltrated with cancerous matter was observed, closing almost 
entirely the cavity of the intestines. The stomach, large colon, 
spleen, kindeys—in short, all the organs of the abdominal cavity, 
were exempt from any pathological lesions. 
The microscopic examination of the tumor demonstrated it to 
be carcinomatous in character. —Presse Veterinaire. 
ACTINOMYCOSIS. 
By H. F. K. Riokell, M.R.C.V.S., (Market Drayton Salop). 
The case of actinomycosis recorded in a recent number of 
the Veterinarian reminds me of an identical case, to which I was 
called during the absence of my principal, Mr. Bampfield, Kettle 
Market, Drayton. 
The subject of tbe disease was a red cow, three years old, the 
property of Mr. W. H. Joodall, of Stoke Grange, (the distin. 
guished breeder of the Shropshire Down sheep.) On Wednesday, 
August 12th, I was requested to go and see the cow, which I was 
informed had been unwell for a fortnight, during which period 
she was unable to eat either hay or grass, but had been supplied 
with bran mashes and gruel. 1 may here add that she had be- 
