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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
wire introduced came in contact with another resisting mass. 
This proved to be four little calculi imbedded together and closing 
also the urethra, which opened at the end of the penis under a 
little filiform prolongation about one inch in length. 
6. Fracture at the hock joint—urinary calculi in a female 
camel .—On the- - - a female camel was brought to 
the American Veterinary College suffering with a comminutive 
fracture at the tarso-metatarsal joint. Being reported to be in 
calf, an unsuccessful attempt at treatment was carried on, but 
ultimately she was destroyed. Besides the lesion of the hock, 
which showed the crushing of the upper extremity of the meta¬ 
tarsus on its inner side, both kidneys were found to contain a 
calculus more developed on the right than on the left kidney. 
That of the right, as in the first case, assuming a shape analagous 
to and much resembling a navicular bone. That of the left kidney 
was much smaller. 
fLEURO-PNEUMONlA. 
REPORT OF THE CATTLE COMMISSIONERS OF MASSACHUSETTS 
RELATING TO PLEURO PNEUMONIA IN 1863. 
(Continued from page 124.) 
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Mass¬ 
achusetts : 
The Commissioners on Contagious Diseases among Cattle submit the fol¬ 
lowing report: 
Calls have been received to visit ten different towns during the last year, 
in three only of which has contagious pleuro-pneumonia been found, viz.: 
Chelmsford, Dedham and Nahant. 
At the time of our first visit to Chelmsford, February 7th, one of a herd 
belonging to Charles Adams had died about two weebs previous, and two others 
were slightly ill. 
The carcass of the dead animal had been carried to the woods, about a mile 
distant, and left above ground, and had become frozen. On examination, there 
