224 CLINICAL ARTICLES.

Median Neurotomy in the Treatment of Chronic Tendinitis and Periostitis of the Fetlock. By C. Pellerin. Translated, with additional facts relating to it, by Professor A. Liautard, M.D., V.M. New York: William R Jenkins, 1896.

THIS is a translation of two articles on the suhject of median neurotomy, the first hy M. Pellerin, and the second by M. Sendrail, both French veterinary sur!:(eons. M. Pellerin's monograph extends to fifty-five pages, in which he de'icrlbes the history of the operation, the indications for its performance, the method of performing it, and his own experience with regard to it in twenty cases. In eleven of these cases the disease for the relief of which the opera­tion was performed was chronic tendinitis, and in all of these recovery followed; in five of the cases tendinitis was associated with disease of the fetlock, and in each of these improvement followed the operation; In three case'i of periostosis of the fetlock two were classed as recoveries and one as a failure; and, lastly, a failure was the result in one case of ringbone. It may be of interest to compare these results with those obtained by Profe:-sor Hobday in the larger series of cases reconied in this number.

The second article extends to only six pages, and gives :M. Sendrail's experience of the operation, of which he expresses a favourable opinion.

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SOME CASES OF MALIGNANT TUMOURS IN THE

HORSE AND DOG.

By E. E. MARTIN, Veterinary-Lieutenant, Army Veterinary Department, Barrackpore.

IN a very interesting article which appeared in several numbers of Tile Journal 0./ Comparative A natolll)' and Tilerapeutics, for 1890 and 1891, the editor furnished a valuable contribution on "The Occurrence of Tumours in the Domcsticated Animals." The con­tributions consisted essentially of a histological report on numerous tumours sent to him by practitioners, and we are enabled by it to get a very fair idea of the frequency of the occurrence of differcnt varieties and the histological peculiarities they present. \Vith a few exceptions, h:)\\'cver, there was not much in the way of clinical history of the cases gn;ell.

1 have come across several cases of malignant growths lately in which operation for removal has been attcmpted and the nature of the grO\\'ths verified by microscopical examination. I think the results may prove interesting, and have therefore penned the following notes on these cases.