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blood and of very offensive matter took place through the nostrils and 
mouth. The animal carries her head down, eyes partly closed, the 
pulse is small and quick, pressure on the throat gives rise to dry and 
painful cough, respiration is accelerated, the walk is difficult and 
accompanied with grunting noise, the nostrils are bloody, auscultation 
reveals sibilant rale in anterior part of the left lung, on the right side 
little increase of respiratory murmur with tubular murmur above and 
in front. 
Diagnosis. Cavity in the right lung, due to softening of tubercle 
communicating with the bronchia. The animal was destroyed for the 
butcher. 
Post mortem. Adherence between the reticulum and diapragm ; 
in the substance of this adherence a nail running through the parts and 
reaching the lung as far as the heart. The lungs removed from the 
thorax have a very offensive odor and on the right side show a large 
tumour, which cut open is an enormous cavity filled with reddish pus, 
with a gangrenous smell, and having on its walls a semi-circular fissure 
in which the nail was resting with its point turned towards the heart. 
(Journal de Zootechnie .) 
This is another example of the accidents which may accompany 
the introduction of foreign substances in the digestive apparatus. It 
is true that in many instances no complication will follow the presence 
of these foreign bodies, but a few cases are on record where fatal re¬ 
sults have taken place. 
CALCAREOUS TUMOUR OF THE BRAIN. 
At a meeting of the Societe Centrale de Medecine Veterinaire, 
Mr. Bouley presented a pathological specimen, having some rough 
resemblance with some calculi found in glandular organs. It consisted 
of a calcareous concretion found between the cerebrum and the 
cerebellum, in one of the cerebellous choroid plexuses of a stallion, 
affected with immobility to an extreme degree, suffering with an 
excessive automatism, the animal remained unconscious in any position, 
his limbs crossed over each other, his head being carried low and being 
unable to raise it. The tumour was formed of carbonate of lime, with 
a small quantity of phosphate. Recueil de Med. Vet.) 
