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advances in formation it will point so directly in front that 
its fluctuation can be easily detected under the fingers. 
When the abscess is sufficiently matured a little compression 
will easily burst its walls and allow the contents to escape 
by the mouth. 
The treatment I generally adopt in these cases is simple. 
A laxative is administered, and the mouth gargled with a 
solution of Pot. nitras. mixed with equal parts of vinegar 
and water, twice or three times a day. I also usually apply 
a stimulating lotion to the throat. 
After the abscess has discharged its contents, I use a 
gargle, composed of a weak solution of Sulph. aluminis, for 
a few days, and administer tonics with diuretics as the case 
may require. 
I have had several cases of this kind, and I have found the 
treatment very successful. The diet, of course, should be 
nutritious in order to keep the strength of the animal up as 
much as possible ; but swallowing towards the end of the case 
is very difficult. Indeed, in one case which I had under treat- 
ment, the cow could neither swallow solid food nor fluids for 
three days. She, however, recovered. 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
U p to the present time no further information has reached 
us relative to the introduction of cattle plague into Silesia, 
to which attention was called in our last months issue. The 
absence of intelligence should, we think, lead to the conclu- 
sion that the rigorous means adopted by the Prussian govern- 
ment have led, in this instance, to the extermination of the 
disease, and probably to the saving of Central Europe from 
another serious loss of cattle. 
The plague, however, is still very rife in Poland, and in 
many parts of Galicia, Buckowina, Transylvania, and Hun- 
gary. Boumania and other divisions of Turkey are also 
suffering severely, and very recently his Majesty the King of 
the Hellenes published a decree forbidding the entrance into 
Greece of cattle, hides, horns, bones, intestines, fat (melted 
or raw), hair, and bristles, from Thessaly. 
