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BLACK QUARTER. 
“ Exactly/' exclaims the veterinary surgeon, rising also ; 
“ neither, sir, was the cob.” 
As a matter of course, the curtain falls upon this in- 
teresting scene; but it almost immediately rises again, and 
discovers seated (a few days are supposed to elapse) the 
alderman, the veterinary surgeon, and the physician in the 
library. “ And so, gentlemen, you consider that my case 
and my horse’s bear a close resemblance.” “ Both have 
been treated on the same principle, and, we are happy to ob- 
serve with equally good results.” “ But/' interrupted the 
alderman, “ Mr. P 1 directs me under his * * administering 
medicine to exercise and occasionally to place three or four old 
rugs on my horse, and to give him a sharp sweat, or, as he 
says, to get him into better condition.” The alderman now 
turns to his physician, as though he had him. “ That, sir,” 
says Dr. B , “ is precisely wdiat I shall prescribe for you.” 
Greenfat was a dever fellow ; he bowed to reason, took the 
hint, acted on it — he will last many years more for it — and his 
exploits have been of late both recorded and delineated in 
“ Punch,” under the assumed name of “ Briggs.” 
Vivat Condition . 
BLACK QUARTER. 
By J. R. Atcherley, M.R.C.V.S., Bridgenorth. 
To the Editor of 11 The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — Having perused Mr. Cook’s paper in The Vete- 
rinarian for the month of May, and having had considerable 
experience, as well as success, in the treatment of black quarter 
in calves, I beg to offer some observations on the above disease. 
Preliminarily, however, I may here state, I have known black 
quarter attack yearlings and two-year-olds, and in a solitary in- 
stance a three-year-old heifer. 
I believe the disease known by the name of “ black quarter” 
to be a specific inflammation of the cellular tissues, usually im- 
plicating the pericardium and heart, but not invariably ; the 
premonitory symptoms of which are so slightly marked as 
generally to escape observation until the animal is beyond the 
power of human aid. Often, however, cases occur in which the 
subcutaneous tissue alone is attacked, and it is in such cases 
only that we have a chance of saving the animal. It is only in 
