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GEORGE FLEMING. 
In other parts of Franconia, Professor Franck has found the 
tumors in the region of the throat so common, that among cattle 
owners, whenever an animal began to lose condition, it was said 
to have a “growth” (gewdchs) in its throat. Even while Boll¬ 
inger was writing his paper on the disease, he received a tumor 
from a veterinary surgeon in Pfalz, which was as large as a fist, 
and which he had removed from the pharynx of a two-year bull. 
For some time previously the animal could not eat, appeared 
to suffer great pain, coughed, and so rapidly lost condition that it 
had to be slaughtered. In the pharyngeal cavity this tumor was 
found just above the larynx. It was spongy in texture, and in 
the meshes of the fibrous framework was a puriform fluid con¬ 
taining the characteristic fungus in immense quantity. The spongy 
character of this granulation-tumor was so marked, that the un¬ 
aided eye might have discovered its mykotic origin. 
Bollinger’s observations attracted much attention on the Con¬ 
tinent, as I have already stated. I gave a brief abstract of them in 
the Veterinary Journal for 1879 (Vol. VIII.. p. 256), with the 
view of discovering whether the disease had been noticed in this 
country. 
Their publication in Italy elicited the fact that Professor Biv- 
olta, of the Turin Veterinary School, had already published a 
paper in the Veterinary Journal of that city, so long ago as 
1868, on a sarcomato-fibrous tumor on the lower jaw of an ox ; 
and after that date, in 1875, Professor Perroncito, of the Turin 
Veterinary School, had an article in the “ Enciclopedia Agraria 
Italiana,” on “ The osteosarcomata of the upper or lower jaws of 
cattle,” in which he describes, among other microscopical objects 
found in the round and giant-cell sarcomata, cryptogamic bodies 
in conglomerations, which were made more distinctly visible by 
treating them with dilute hydrochloric acid, which dissolved the 
lime salts surrounding them. According to Israel, Langenbeck, 
the famous German surgeon, had, years previously, described and 
delineated the fungus, which he found in the pus from a deep- 
seated vertebral abscess in a man in the hospital at Kiel; but 
some doubt is thrown upon the correctness of this statement. 
In 1875, Bivolta undoubtedly described the structure of the 
