LIVERPOOL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 93 
or more vomicae were found in the lungs. The horse had not taken 
a recent cold. 
The President said he had received some portions of the lungs of 
a cow, and a communication relating to the subject from Mr. Howell, 
of Rochdale ; he would exhibit the specimen, and after the 
Secretary had read the letter, would ask the members for their 
opinion. 
"SCROFULOUS DEPOSIT IN THE LUNGS OF A COW. 
" By James Howell. 
“ I have this afternoon sent per rail portions of the lungs of 
a cow slaughtered last night in my presence. The animal was five 
years old, and of the short-horn breed. My attention was called to her 
about six weeks since, in consequence of great difficulty in breathing, 
accompanied by a roaring noise, the animal at same time being 
eager for food ; the pulse normal, respiration deep, but not accele- 
rated. I found the throat swollen, soft, or full above the larynx — 
nothing definite to be detected. On auscultating the chest, I pro- 
nounced her to be grapy , or tuberculous on the left side, advised 
blister over the larynx — the Nitro. Mur. Acid, and to keep her as 
well as they possibly could to make her fit for the butcher. The 
treatment relieved the roaring, and the cow has certainly gained 
flesh ; yesterday evening was slaughtered, and you now have 
a portion of the diseased parts sent you. 
" You will see there was a conglomeration of tuberculous matter 
in one piece of lung, and some grapy tumours that were hang- 
ing loose and some attached to the pleura costalis. All this disease 
was on the left side. There is a portion of lung from the right side, 
which has a large vesicle on it, if not ruptured in transit — that was 
all the abnormal appearance I could detect on the right side of 
chest. 
" I found an abscess immediately above and a little posterior to 
the larynx, in a perfect sac, soft, and containing upwards of a pint 
of creamy coloured fluid or pus. You will observe the cheesy 
nature of the contents of the large mass, which assumed somewhat 
the nature of an abscess, as there were several ounces of fluid 
escaped when the mass was cut into. When you lay open the other 
portions, you will then be able to explain the nature of their 
contents. 
“ No doubt some of the members present have met with many 
similar cases ; but as this opportunity of making post-mortem exa- 
mination was afforded me, I thought it would be some little addition 
to the subject you have kindly consented to introduce.” 
It was the unanimous opinion of the members, that the animal 
from which the portion of lung had been taken, was affected with 
phthisis pulmonalis, and that it was not a very uncommon disease. 
On close examination of part of the right lung, some small miliary 
tubercles were found. The tubercles in the portions of the left 
