In this case a large and hard swelling follows, but without injurious consequences, disappearing after a few days. I can recommend this method with a good conscience to my colleagues. It can easily be performed, and looks more elegant and less cruel than bleeding with the lancet. In the case of cattle it is not so good, because the skin is so thick to stick in. and the needle is hard But In September, 1896, I showed this method to twenty colleagues, among them Prof. Dieckerhoff, who seemed much pleased. in my innocence I did not suppose that he would afterward take occasion to describe the same as his discovery, without even mentioning my name.-Deutsche Thierarzt. Wochenschrift, April 10, 1897. EXTIRPATION OF SPLENIC FEVER BY AGRICULTURAL REGULATIONS.. BY LYDTIN.-It is always encouraging to hear the veterinarian praised on the part of agricultural associations. For this reason the report which comes from the last session of the Agricultural Council for Alsace-Lorraine is of great interest. By doing away with the open pasturing of cattle splenic fever in the community of Illhausern has been very nearly suppressed. Formerly wild animals helped to spread the disease, and especially the carcass itself, which was only covered with dirt and often came to lie in surface-water; likewise flies and midgets carried the germs of the disease from such decaying carcasses. The district veterinarian Schield, of Rappoltsweiler, therefore deserves great credit for suppressing splenic fever by doing away with open pasturing in spite of popular opposition and of heavy immediate loss to his profession. His service, however, is to-day generally recognized, and he has saved the Government much money. We congratulate him on this event.-Idem. SELECTIONS. MILK A VEHICLE FOR MICROBES; NEEDED LEGISLATION.— The number of deaths caused annually by diseased milk and milkcontamination is sufficiently great to warrant legislative interferThe following points should be noted: 1. The need for setting up some authority, central or county, having in its charge the dairy farms and milk-shops of the country or county, with adequate power of inspection and regulation of all premises on which milk is produced, manipulated, or sold. 2. Statutory inspection by medical officers of health of all such premises in their districts, with right of entry at all reasonable hours and on all occasions, with power of inspection of all cattle, apparatus, utensils, etc. 3. Power to local authority immediately to prohibit the sale of milk reported by their medical officer of health to be causing, in his opinion, disease in human consumers, the dairy men, etc., interested having the onus of showing within twenty four hours valid reason why the prohibition should be removed, and the producing of reasons to call for reimbursement of the amount of loss sustained by the action of the local authority. 4. Certain diseases (to be defined and, if need be, added to) of teats and udders of milch-cows to be scheduled as infectious diseases of cattle for the purpose of securing penalty on all persons selling milk secreted by cattle so suffering. 5. All persons keeping milch-cows, or selling milk, to seek registration under local authority, under pain of heavy penalty for neglect of this duty. 6. All such persons to be under obligations to furnish the local authority, at intervals, with complete or supplementary or amended lists of customers, wholesale or retail, at a specific rate of payment. 7. The cubic space per cow to be fixed, a minimum being 800 feet. 8. The manufacture of ice-cream to be placed on a basis of safety to its consumers, in respect of production, materials, place of manipulation, storage, etc. 9. No milk to be allowed to be used for food from a shed in which a cow is housed while suffering under a scheduled disease, even though the cow producing the milk be not herself visibly so suffering.-British Medical Journal. THE Annual Convention of the National Master-shoers' Protective Association was a complete success. The St. Louis Association of Veterinarians joined in the festivities of the craft. Rabies and Texas-fever are among the reported diseases in New York during September. Drs. W. H. Kelly, of Albany, and V. A. Moore, of Ithaca, were directed to make the necessary investigation. REPORTS OF CASES. A CASE OF SPIROPTERA MEGASTOMA (RUD). ONTARIO VETERINARY COLLEGE, TORONTO, CANADA. THE subject of this note was a female donkey which had been condemned on account of a pelvic fracture involving the acetabulum. In demonstrating the case to the post-mortem class, a tumor was noticed projecting from the anterior face of the stomach. The omentum was adherent to it over a small area. On opening and cleansing the stomach the apparent tumor was found to be an intramural abscess, which projected somewhat further into the stomach than it did externally. The mucous membrane pre sented an ulcer on the summit of the abscess about 2.5 cm. (1 in.) in diameter, through which appeared a few spiroptera, partially embedded in the caseous pus which filled the abscess-cavity. The meaurements of the abscess were as follows: diameter, 7.5 em. (3 in.); circumference, measured internally, 21.5 cm; externally, 23.5 cm. ; thickness from within to without, 4 cm. Although the writer has had an opportunity to examine several hundred stomachs, many of which presented spiroptera abscess, nothing of this magnitude has yet been met with. The history of the case for the two years previous was obtained without any symptoms of digestive derangement being elicited, and the general condition at death was excellent. Friedberger and Fröhner (Zuill's trans.), i. pp. 275, 276, gives: "S. Megastoma produces in the cardiac portion of the stomach tumors from the size of a bean to that of a nut, provided with an opening and able to cause gastritis, colic, etc." So far as my experience goes they always seem to affect the pyloric portion of the stomach (as in this case) and do not seem to cause gastritis or any appreciable clinical signs of their presence. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Neumann: Treatise on Parasites. (Fleming's trans.), pp. 346, 347. Full account. TWO INTERESTING FORMS OF LAMENESS. BY W. E. A. WYMAN, V.S., M'KILLIP VETERINARY COLLEGE-PRO TEMPORE, CLEMSON COLLEGE, S. c. AMONG the cases exhibited at the Post-Graduate Clinic of the McKillip Veterinary College, the following two cases of lameness are of especial interest: CASE I. Disease of the head of the suspensory ligament (hindleg).-History: Over-exertion, traumatism, especially apt to occur in spirited animals, pullers, etc.; one or both legs may be involved. Inspection In the standing posture, all four legs are brought toward the centre of gravity. The fetlock of the affected leg shows more or less dorsal flexion. In very lame animals the lumbar region is arched, and the abdominal muscles are contracted. When walking and trotting a well-marked, swinging-leg lameness is seen. As the animal trots toward the observer the stifle appears prominent and the legs bowed. When trotting or walking by the observer an imperfect flexion of the hock, a shortened for ward stride, and at the moment the function of the supporting leg begins, that is as the animal plants the foot, the diagnostic excessive dorsal flexion of the metacarpo-phalangeal articulation becomes apparent. Palpation: In the early stages nothing, or a badly-defined soreness, can be detected, later on a secondary periostitis and its characteristic symptoms appear. CASE II. Paresis of the flexor pedis perforans and perforatus (hind-leg).—History: Falls and slipping; animals which become cast in the stable and struggle violently. The animal never recovers fully. Inspection: While standing still or backing, nothing abnormal is manifest. As soon as the animal walks, trotting is impossible, especially upon slippery ground; the hock is flexed excessively, the foot unduly advanced, all parts from the fetlock down are pendulous, plainly noticeable as the function of the swinging leg is about to cease. Just as soon as the function of the supporting leg begins the heels are put down first, and at this moment the hoof slides back from two to fourteen inches, depending upon the severity of the attack, to be repeated at each step. This peculiar action improves greatly when the animal is changed from soft footing to rough ground allowing a good foothold. Cases of long standing only show a limited retraction as the function of the supporting leg sets in. Palpation: Nothing abnormal. In describing the various forms of lameness, the writer considers such a division as the history of the case, its inspection and palpation, more practicable from a clinical standpoint. The total absence of a work on the clinical diagnosis of lameness of the horse, a subject of vital importance to all surgeons, may serve as an apology for the creation of a work dealing fully with this subject and to be submitted to the profession at an early date. LYMPHADENOMA, OR HODGKIN'S DISEASE. BY W. HORACE HOSKINS, D.V.S., PHILADELPHIA, PA. THE subject of this exceptional condition was a collie dog"Pharaoh "-five and one-half years old, the property of Mr. M. H. F., of Philadelphia, who had raised him from a puppy. |