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Now there can hardly be a doubt that in the present status of 
the lung plague in America it can be definitely and permanently 
eradicated from the continent at a cost of $2,000,000, judiciously 
applied. The question then, as regards inoculation and all other 
means of temporizing with this disease, is just this: Shall we 
preserve this plague at a yearly cost of from $2,000,000 to 
$5,000,000, or shall we once for all spend $2,000,000 on its exter¬ 
mination, and free the country forever from the scourge ? 
EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
INTRA ABDOMINAL HEMATOMA INTERMITTENT COLICS—DEATH. 
By M. Piot. 
A small percheron mare, 7 years old, is taken sick the day after 
she is bought. She has some slight colic and soon is in great 
pain. The coat is staring, the head hangs down, eyes partly closed. 
Pulse, 72, soft, mucous membranes subicteric ; respiration short, 
trembling and accelerated, 38 per minute; temperature, 40°4. 
Heart and lungs show no signs of disease. Anorexia complete, 
great thirst. The abdominal cavity, whose walls are somewhat 
retracted, show nothing particular. The uterus is empty, the 
ovaries and kidneys have their normal size. Nothing is discovered 
by rectal examination. Slight diarrhoea. Urine healthy. 
k A diagnosis of acute enteritis is made and the animal is placed 
under treatment accordingly. No great change or amelioration 
is observed, and the animal dies in great emaciation after about 
two weeks of treatment. 
At the autopsy an enormous tumor, quite spherical, entirely 
surrounded by the mesentery, and measuring from 20 to 25 centi¬ 
meters in diameter, is found adherent in front, to the right lobe 
of the liver near its superior border and its posterior face ; the 
posterior vena cava runs alongside of it in a kind of groove situa- 
