and otiier Inflammatory Attacks. 
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It was sold on the 22nd of July for 21Z. ; weijjht, 50 stone. 
The lungs of this bullock were sent to Professor Simonds, who 
has reported to me, chiefly by word of mouth, to the following 
effect : — 
" There was evidence in the lungs of your bullock, of lung- 
disease, though of a slight nature. A small portion of the lung 
had become separated from the healthy lung structure, as is the 
case in the majority of instances of recovery from pleuro-pneu- 
monia." [There was an adhesion of both lungs to the pleura, 
but no meat was damaged.] 
I do not anticipate that in young and previously healthy animals 
a single attack promptly met will permanently destroy a con- 
siderable part of the structure of the lung ; if it would, the 
animal would hardly be expected to fatten afterwards. 
Our own memoranda show that the attack was long and acute ; 
men of experience on the spot offered almost any odds that the 
animal would die in 48 hours ; it was reduced to a mere bag of 
bones, yet its rallying powers were such that the result of the 
attack was merely a delay of six or eight weeks in the time, not 
in the conditions, of the sale, with a charge for a few shilling 
bottles of medicine. 
Lastly, I will refer briefly to a case which was never attended 
with danger, because the weighing of the animal was conse- 
quently not interrupted ; yet even here the loss of weight shows 
that the attack v/as in some degree serious. This bullock was 
taken ill January 5, 1863 ; he had aconite and bryonia for four 
or five days ; phosphorus and sulphur completed his treatment. 
It will be observed that he was weighed on the 4th day of the 
attack, and had then lost 1^ cwt. instead of gaining about 
56 lbs. since the last monthly weighing : — 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
Weight, December 12, 1862 10 3 0 
January 9, 18G3 9 10 
February 6, „ 10 0 23 
March 6, „ 10 2 28 
April 2, ., 11 0 12 
„ May 1, ;, 113 6 
» July 9, „ 12 2 6 
Sold for 23/., July 23rd. Carcase, 55 stone. 
Thus in every case we had to deal with, the animal was sold 
fat, whilst several of my neighbours suffered from like attacks, 
and sacrificed their bullocks. One farmer near me lost by death 
or forced sale more than half of a lot of 30 bulloclvs which he 
bought in the same fair from which mine came. 
