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contact with a stone wall or fence, which prevents further 

 circular turning. Unfortunately, the poor animal comes 

 in contact with the wall with such force, and so often 

 repeated, that on that side of the head will be seen swell- 

 ings and enlargements of the bones of the jaw. In this 

 way does the affected beast turn from day to day until 

 emaciated from weakness and hunger. The end of some 

 cases is frequently hastened by their falling into holes, 

 rivers, etc. The inability to stop turning prevents the 

 animal from gathering food, and hence the case terminates 

 in starvation. 



Treatment. The success attending the treatment of such 

 cases is very great. The cure consists in finding out the 

 exact spot on the head over the hydatid, and boring 

 through the bone with an instrument made for that pur- 

 pose. As soon as the bone is bored through a small pair 

 of forceps or tongs is put through it into the sack, and by 

 this means, together with a syringe with a long nozzle to 

 pump out what fluids there are in the cavity, the cure is 

 completed. The hole, of course, will have to be closed by 

 a pad or cloth, to exclude the air till it has closed by a 

 new bone. (See Diseases of Sheep.) 



Inflammation. — Inflammation is the same in all ani- 

 mals, but happily it is not common to the ox tribe. 

 Indeed inflammation in all animals is not so common as it 

 is usually represented to us to be. Irritation is oftener 

 observed among animals and men, than inflammation, and 

 disease with decreased force or power is more frequent than 

 either diseases now-a-days; or, it may be, we are better 

 educated, and thereby can more readily discern the true 

 conditions of diseases, than men of former times; or, it 

 may be from both causes combined, that we are able to 



