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least 3xvj of aloes, and two pints of ol. lini, besides having 
several injections during the first four days I attended her. 
She persisted in standing for several days, a fact her owner 
could scarcely reconcile with the notion of inflamed feet. She 
at last lay down, and is now almost always lying. 
A sheep-skin was applied to the loins ; hot poultices to the 
feet; a combination of febrifuge and anodyne medicine was 
given ; and her shoes were removed, and soles thinned as soon 
as it could be accomplished without distressing her too much. 
Under this treatment she is recovering, but is still very tender 
in her feet, though daily improving. 
In considering the cause in the foregoing case, two circum- 
stances are most prominent, viz., the morning’s work, which was 
probably continued after her efforts to abort had occurred, and 
which, to a certain extent, interfered with or restrained them ; 
and the retention of the small portion of the foetal membranes. 
*** Mr. Smith has kindly sent us, with these cases, the 
morbid sac of the serous abscess. From being originally cellu- 
lar tissue, it has become converted into plates of cartilage, which 
are thickly studded with nodules and masses of ossific deposit ; 
shewing that, had the time been afforded, the entire sac would 
have become osseous. His plan of treatment was the only 
radically efficacious one. — Ed. Vet. 
BLACK QUARTER IN CALVES. 
By Robert Cook, M.R.C.V.S., Erith, Kent. 
Sir, — NEVER having read in your columns any account of 
the disease in cattle known by the name of “ black quarter,” 
or, more properly, inflammatory fever, I am induced to send a 
description of the following cases that occurred in my practice 
some few months since. 
The disease attacked several calves ten months old, and in 
rather poor condition. When called to see the animals, I ob- 
served the following symptoms : — head extended ; respiration 
short and quick ; pulse accelerated and scarcely perceptible ; 
staring coat; warty excrescences on the skin in different parts 
of the body; bowels constipated, &c. The progress of the dis- 
ease was extremely rapid. Five of them had died in the space 
of a week. I commenced treating those that were still suffer- 
