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the part, by which the cow was enabled to walk about, 

 lie down and rise with facility. 



In No. 17 of the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, 

 and in the Transactions of the Highland Society of 

 Scotland, p. 87, there is a very curious and successful 

 case of the amputation of the diseased udder of a cow, 

 given by Mr. Dick, the eminent veterinary surgeon of 

 Edinburgh. The operation, however, was performed 

 by Mr. Andrew Bowie, veterinary surgeon of How- 

 ick it succeeded, the wound healed rapidly, and she 

 is now fit for the butcher. As human nature itself 

 is occasionally found in the sad predicament of being 

 obliged to undergo the most cruel and torturing ope- 

 rations, it may be demanded why should brutes claim 

 an exemption ? I shall only say, that notwithstanding 

 the distinguished success of the above case, such good 

 fortune must not always be relied upon, although the 

 anxiety of a feeling mind, the unavoidable trouble, 

 and ultimately the bill of costs indubitably may. Even 

 granting success, the expense will in all probability 

 exceed the future profit of the animal. With a cow 

 then in such a perilous case I should prefer the first 

 loss, have her killed, and her carcase turned into the 

 little money it might bring. This, however, is not 

 said with any view of derogating from the well-earned 

 reputation of the eminent and able veterinary sur- 

 geons above cited, particularly of Mr. Dick, whom 

 I have known by his writings and his practice during 

 many years. 



The disease, it seems, had arisen three weeks after 

 the cow had been turned to grass, and, in the northern 

 phrase, allowed to go yeld, that is to say, dismissed 



