the Horn- Diffemper in Cattle. 535" 
ed with a degree of infenfibility, and that the diftrefs difcovered 
does not exift in any great degree until the braim is in forne mea- 
fure affected; or the matter is abforbed, andvinjures the habit án. 
_ Air-bubbles are continually forming at the orifice, . through 
which the thin fluid ouzes after the horn is bored. This inidi+ 
cates an internal fermentation, and it is not improbable that pu-- 
trid matter of fome kind or other may have: given rife ito: it. 
The:matter may at firit: be formed on the periofteum, and efi- 
tering into the interftices of the bone, may difiolve the oily fub- 
ftance, and form a fluid fo putrid and corrofive as. to. diflolve. 
even the bone itíelf ; upon this fuppofition, the air within be- 
c „putrid and confined. by. the-heat-of thé parts, will be. 
largely expanded, from whence a great degree: of -compreffion. 
upon the furrounding parts. muft-enfuers its effects .at firft may: 
be final, after a- while greater ; at firft producing no. great dif- 
trefs, after.a while fome pain; bue not füflicient to produce fuch 
uneafy fenfations as to be: noticed ; but when the bone is entirely: - 
wafted and the putrid air much increafed, and the compreflion; 
become great, the tender vefícls of the head mutt feel the force: 
of .it ; the humors alfo ay -be highly acrimonious, and pros: 
duce a genérabirritatión, Bue from’ that fenfible relief that an 
opening into’ the hon gives the beat, it is more than’ probable 
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that the diftrefs: difeovered arifes from. compreffion, rather than. 
from an effe& produced on: the blood:and juices 5. for, in fome: 
inftances,. the: beaft is almoft inftantly relieved by making an 
opening into the horn. iu OFF ov Std OOM. 1 E 
_ The paffing of liquors from: the.horn, to the, nofe, as in the 
cafe fir{t mentioned, may, peshaps be, confidered as an objeg'on 
