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EXTRACT8 FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
These symptoms lasted two hours and a half. During that 
time the first cow had four fits, the second only three, but they 
lasted longer. 
Not knowing what to do, the farmer gave them a quart of 
black coffee. The symptoms subsided but the cows had several fits 
afterwards. 
At the visit of Mr. Barbe, he found them quiet, but exhausted 
and very weak; the pulse was regular, the ears neither cool or 
warm ; their walk was staggering, but without fall; the eyelids 
somewhat swollen, conjunctiva normal; pupil but little dilated ; 
on the whole recovering. Coffee was continued, low diet, and re¬ 
covery perfect in a short time .—Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire. 
FUNGOID ARTHRITIS IN THE PIG. 
By M. Rf.quier. 
Requested as inspector of meat to visit a young pig, which 
was to be killed and sent to market, and having noticed in him 
no disease which could be injurious, permit was given to take 
him, but having observed a lameness of the anterior extremity, 
the knee of which was much swollen, this was dissected. 
The left anterior leg is much sprung at the knee and on the 
anterior part of the hoof. The knee bent forwards, is consider¬ 
ably swollen and immovable ; there seems to be carpal anchylosis. 
The skin of the knee is of a red-purplish color, and strongly ad¬ 
herent to the tissues underneath, bv the transformation of the 
connective tissue, which is hypertrophied and degenerated. This 
tissue is almost cartilaginous, and can scarcely be cut with the 
knife. Sections made in all directions through it show at places 
oval cavities of various sizes, with walls as hard as the surround¬ 
ing tissue. Their contents are grayish, caseous in consistency and 
look like insissipated pus. Upon longitudinal section they have a 
marbled aspect, and seem subdivided in small cavities by a greyish 
pale connective tissue. 
These lesions were observed upon the lateral and especially 
the posterior face of the knee; the anterior is free from them. 
The articular surfaces are red, the synovia slightly rosy .—Journal 
de Zootechnie. 
