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nietitans. No treatment was attempted : the animal was dying. 
What were the causes of death ? The animal being castrated, 
hernia was not supposed, notwithstanding the position assumed, 
by the animal. 
In exploring the scrotal region, I felt that the cicatrix of cas¬ 
tration of the left side was drawn upwards and kept in that posi¬ 
tion by an adhesion coming from the abdomen ; and it was 
thought that this was due to the presence upon the testicular cord 
of a small champignon, about the size of a small egg. 
On the post-mortem, this adhesion proved to be due to the ex¬ 
tremity of the great omentum which was much congested and ter¬ 
minated by an enlargement or true tumor, formed of its blood ves¬ 
sels, and wdiicli becoming fibrous had united to the cicatrix of the 
scrotum. The superior opening of the inguinal canal was en¬ 
larged by the straining of the omentum, which passing forward, 
first under funicular shape, had spread afterwards until it 
reached the great curvature of the stomach. 
In this case the animal has been castrated by-the process of 
clams .—Presse Veterinaire. 
A CASE OF ACEPHALOCYST IN THE BRAIN OF A BEAR. 
By M. Lestre. 
A bear two years old presented for some time the following 
symptoms : increasing irregularity of locomotion, that function 
becoming regular ataxia, that is, a marked weakness of the hind¬ 
quarters ; a heavy irregular walk ; the fore legs being less active 
than the hinder, dragging on the ground, and moved by a 
circular motion of circumduction. The animal then became blind 
* with amaurosis of first the right, then the left eye ; was deaf and 
idiotic, losing control of the sphincters; not looking for his 
food and by degrees becoming entirely paralyzed. He was at 
length destroyed, and a post-mortem examination was made. The 
investigations were principally directed to the nervous system. 
In opening the cranium, the brain at once protruded, as if 
pushed out. It was soft and fluctuating, and the substance was 
reduced to a thin and irregular layer, forming the wall of the 
