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heart almost inaudible, I then diagnosed it traumatic disease of the 

 heart, ordered tonics, stimulants, and good nourishment. The swelling 

 on the chest increased to a considerable size. I punctured it in several 

 placeSj and it gradually diminished j the appetite slowly returned, and 

 the cow seemed to improve every day and get all right again for a few 

 weeks; but she still had the anxious look, and a grunt when she 

 moved about. I was called to see her again in about four weeks after 

 the first attack ; the owner said she was very lame in the off fore leg. 

 I had her taken out of the byre, which was dark, and found her lame, 

 caused by a swelling on the oS side of the chest, immediately above 

 the sternum and close to the point of the elbow. This swelling being 

 hard, and very painful to the touch, I suspected the presence of some 

 foreign body. I made a free incision into it and introduced my finger, 

 and felt the sharp point of a needle. I enlarged the wound so as to 

 admit my finger and thumb, then I got hold of a very large darning- 

 needle and took it out ; it was the largest needle of the sort I ever 

 sawj — it was 5 inches long. I treated the wound Avith fomentations 

 and carbolic dressings for about two weeks, then I had it thoroughly 

 washed and examined, and found a small dark-coloured cord, which 

 came away with a gentle pull. As long as this cord remained in the 

 wound there was a very offensive smell from it, but very soon after it 

 was removed the wound healed up and the cow did well. 



" The second case was in a milch cow, that had been treated four 

 weeks by another practitioner for indigestion. I at once suspected 

 some chest disease, from the grunt she had, and her thin, emaciated 

 appearance. I went to the left side of the chest to auscultate, when 

 my cheek came in contact with a very painful nodule, about the size 

 of an egg. I examined it carefully, and felt something hard in its 

 centre, t cut down on this hard spot, and came on the point of a 

 needle, which I removed with the forceps, it being over the average 

 size of darning-needles too (4| mches). The grunt immediately left 

 her, and the appetite improved every day. I dressed the wound the 

 same as in the first case, and removed the cord in three weeks. The 

 wound healed quickly, and the cow is now as well as ever she was. 



"The third case came under my notice on the 1st of this month 

 (August). This cow had been treated by another practitioner for 

 some days (for what I don't know). The owner told me she had 

 been off her feeding and wasting away for some time. I observed a 

 swelling on the left side of the chest, above the sternum, and close to 

 the point of the elbow. This swelling was also very painful to the 

 touch ; it was about the size of my two hands. After manipulating 

 it carefully, I could feel the hard nucleus that I felt in the others. I 

 cut down on it, and got hold of a darning-needle of a smaller size, and 



