THE DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



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muscles and divided it, excising a portion to the extent of about 

 three or four inches. The part cut through retracted, and was 

 left floating free in the abdomen. The operation was com- 

 pleted bj passing some interrupted sutures of wide tape through 

 the common integument only. After the animal was released, I 

 gave him some aperient medicine, and ordered gruel to be ad- 

 ministered at regular intervals. 



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MODE OF OPERATING FOR GUT-TIE. 



" Before I was a student at the college, I attended a post- 

 mortem examination of an old Welch runt, which my father 

 ordered to be killed, as the proprietor neglected sending soon 

 enough for him to be of any service. In this case there were 

 about six inches of the small intestines strangulated, and quite 

 black in color. 



"The question arises. Is this affection produced from any 

 particular mode of castration ? My father has casti-ated ani- 



