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two lateral ventricles enormously distended, and filled with a 
serous liquid, in quantity about three-eighths of a liter, or some 
twenty ounces. As the fluid was removed through an opening in 
the left ventricle, a thick transparent membrane, easily torn, 
though elastic, appeared. This was evidently a hydatid, which 
had developed in the left hemisphere, which it had enlarged at 
the expense of the nervous substance, and the pressure of which 
had even acted upon the cranial box, which was found considera¬ 
bly thinned down. The corpora striata, horns of Ammon, optic 
layers, the corpora quadrigemina and cerebral peduncles were also 
much compressed and deformed ; the optic nerves, and especially 
the right one, atrophied. 
The right hemisphere was only the seat of a simple hydrops 
of the ventricle, which had pressed, deformed and thinned its 
walls. This was the consequence of the development of the hy¬ 
datid of the other ventricle. As to the nature of this parasite, it 
is an echinococcus; the heads or portions of head of taenia could 
not be found in the liquid, nor at the surface of the membrane. 
But the thickness of this and the folds of its internal face are 
sufficient to recognize the variety of altered or undeveloped 
echinococcus called acephalocyst .—Journal de Zootechnie. 
UPON THE USE OF CHLOROHYDRATE OF MORPHIA AND THE EX¬ 
TRACT OF BELLADONNA IN THE TREATMENT OF TETANUS 
IN SOLIPEDS. 
By Dr. Santo Stazzi. 
In the Clinica Veterinaria of October, 1884, the author re" 
ports a number of cases of this disease where the treatment con¬ 
sisted mainly of the subcutaneous injection of a solution of * 
chlorhydrate of morphia in various doses. Thirty centigrams and 
upwards in distilled water, with the administration of fifteen 
grammes of extract of belladonna, stimulating friction, and the 
application of a blister of cantharides over the vertebral column 
from the withers to the croup completed the treatment. 
Out of ten cases thus treated seven made a recovery. 
1st case.—Of traumatic tetanus ; recovered in 22 days. 
