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GEO. C. FAVILLE. 
ditis ; a few engorged and blackened spots in the lower portions 
of the lungs; the liver enlarged, softened and sometimes liyper- 
semic; gall bladder filled ; tissues adjacent hyperseraic ; the gall 
thick with a greenish black, pulpy sediment; the spleen very 
much enlarged, with contents a disintegrated, pulpy mass of an 
intensified maroon or blackish red color; hypersemia and hyper¬ 
trophy of the kidneys, also softening and black spots upon the 
capsule; the bladder generally distended and the bloody urine 
containing a black sediment; in one case inflammation of the 
small intestines; the mucus coat of the rumen and omasum very 
easily torn, the omasum in some cases impacted. 
Histology .—At the time of the outbreak, I could not obtain 
a microscope of sufficient power to make examinations. I sent 
some of the blood to D. S. Fairchild, M.D., Amer, Iowa, who 
found abundance of baccillus anthracis. He also performed ex¬ 
periments of inoculation, and found that the disease reproduced 
itself. 
TUMOR OF THE METACARPAL REGION. 
By Geo. C. Faville, B.S., D.V.M. 
I do not know that the case of which I write will be of any 
peculiar interest to the readers of the Review, but it was a case 
that interested me greatly, as well as all the medical practitioners 
of the city. A gray mare, five years old, was brought to me with 
the request that I should remove a small tumor from her leg. 
On examination I found a rather soft tumor on the inside of 
the left metacarpal, about midway from the knee to the pastern. 
Upon casting the animal and cutting through the skin, I found 
what appeared to be a thin fibrous tumor about the size of a 
goose egg. In order to save making a large opening in the skin, 
I opened the sac, to remove it a portion at a time. Upon mak¬ 
ing an incision into the sac I found about a fluid drachm of a 
blackish-brown liquid. Pressure showed the sac to be almost 
filled with a black, greasy, slightly granular matter, with which 
was mixed a large quantity of perfectly-formed hairs. The wall 
