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offered some superficial lesions, producing a quite marked opacity, 
probably the result of blows against outside surfaces. 
In the frontal region, on a line with both eyes, a little to the 
left of the median line, was a small tumor of the size of a hazel nut, 
hard and bony, to which little attention was paid. When the ani¬ 
mal was forced to move, he was with little difficulty made to turn 
from left to right, but if left free in his movements, he turned to 
the left in a circle, which diminished little by little in diameter, 
especially after some excitement, until he seemed to turn round 
almost on himself as an axis. When killed, the post mortem 
showed that the tumor observed on the frontal region was only a 
local elevation of the left frontal sinus plate, and that in the diver¬ 
ticulum thus formed there existed a greenish-yellow pus, very thick, 
with no well marked odor, and evidently not of recent formation. 
The mucous membrane of the sinus was covered with greenish-yel¬ 
low granulations. Above the orbits the floor of the sinus was con¬ 
siderably atrophied, and in some places the plate of the bone had 
disappeared. Similar atrophy still more marked existed on the 
level of the septum which separates the sinus from the cranial 
cavity. The brain was felt through. On the right side the frontal 
sinus was the seat of a slight inflammation. The brain at the 
point corresponding with the atrophy of the bony septum, showed 
the meninges highly inflamed and adherent to the brain sub 
stance. This had undergone superficial changes. The inflamed 
parts had a granular aspect, with a greenish-yellow discoloration. 
This occupied the anterior part of the parietal, close to the limits 
of the frontal lobe .—Archives Veterinaires. 
A NEW PATHOGENIC BACILLUS. 
By C. S. Eberth. 
A bacillus has been found in the body of a badger belonging 
to the Zoological Garden, which had died after several days of 
sickness. It was principally on the periphery of small abscesses of 
the liver that it was observed. Its larger proportions distinguish 
it from the bacillus anthracis. This case is analagous to the bac- 
terian hepatitis of young lambs, observed by Rivolta.— Virchow's 
Archives. 
