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breaks out into a sweat, we notice the thermometer falls and the 
temperature returns to the normal condition. If the temperature 
of an animal continues for any length of time at 41° to 42° it 
should always be looked upon as unfavorable, especially when it 
is not influenced by the normal fluctuations of morning or even¬ 
ing. A high temperature can be endured longer, when it is 
interrupted by the morning decrease; a continual high temper¬ 
ature produces an extraordinary loss of condition (flesh, etc.) the 
so-called fever-consumption (rapid-emaciation). 
(to be continue;).) 
MELANOMA. 
Read before the United States Veterinary Medical Association , by 
A. Liautard , M.D ., V.S. 
The specimens which I beg to present to you to-day, were 
obtained from a grey horse, which is not unknown to some of you. 
In the May number of the E-eview, page 67, Dr. C. H. Hall, 
then house surgeon to the hospital department of the American 
Veterinary College, reported the case of an operation which was 
performed on the same horse, for the removal of a melanoma, 
removed on said animal from the inferior cervical region, a little 
to the right of the median line, just under the lower portion of 
the levator humeri; an operation which was so far successful, 
that some twenty days later the animal presented nothing but a 
slight cicatrix, and was able to resume his work. 
This horse was kept working as a cart-horse until the third of 
July, when Dr. Robertson’s attention was called to him. He 
found him dull in appearance, with a painful walk, and grunting 
quite loud when made to move or to turn round; the dorsal 
region was somewhat swollen. Attributing this condition to 
probably an attack of rheumatism from exposure, the doctor di¬ 
rected him to be sent to the College for treatment. 
