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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
Following this condition a lump had shown itself under one of 
the mammae near the umbilicus, of the size of a goose egg, inter¬ 
fering with the motions of the dog, especially when hunting. 
The skin being cut through, the tumor was exposed, divided 
by an incision with a razor and the worm made its exit. The 
skin being sewed up, the animal recovered. 
Mr. Megnin says that this is the first time where this worm 
has been found in the sub-cutaneous abdominal tumors. The 
strongylus gigas has been found in man, though in very few in¬ 
stances ; it is found, rare also, in some domestic animals, the 
horse, the ox, and especially the dog ; it has also been met, per¬ 
haps oftener, amongst wild carnivora, the wolf and the bison. 
The kidneys, the bladder, the urethra and the surroundings of 
these organs are the tissues where it is most generally seen.— 
Gazette Medicate. 
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY 
Of the actions produced upon infectious agent by the organism of 
SHEEP MORE OR LESS REFRACTORY TO ANTHRAX ; WHAT BECOMES OF THE 
SPECIFIC MICROBES, DIRECTLY INTRODUCED INTO THE CIRCULATION BY 
LARGE TRANSFUSIONS OF CARBUNCULOUS BLOOD. 
By A. Chauveau. 
To resume, says the author, this is what happens to the car- 
buncular bacteridies, introduced by transfusion of the blood in the 
organism of subjects refractory to anthrax, when the resistance 
of this organism is great and strengthened again by good preven¬ 
tive inoculations : 
1st. Bacteridies introduced in the circulatory apparatus soon 
disappear ; a few hours after the transfusions none can be found. 
After death they are also missing. Yet, in some cases of rapid 
death, the clots of the heart may contain a few capable of infec¬ 
tious activity. 
2d. If bacteridies disappear from the blood, it is not because 
they are destroyed ; they are first stopped in the capillary net¬ 
work of the lungs, then in that of some other parenchymatous or- 
