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THE CHRISTMAS SHOW OF CATTLE. 
membranes around it was the great seat of disease, being highly 
inflamed. 
I bled and setoned twelve others the day following, and no 
more have been yet affected. I also ordered them upon a more 
spare pasture, as they were very fat, but not more so than they had 
been other years. 
Mr. Youatt has described this disease as “inflammatory fever,” 
and has given a long account of its symptoms ; but he justly ob- 
serves, that they differ materially in different districts. In this 
neighbourhood it confines itself to a particular spot, either in the 
shoulder, loins, or thighs. It is very fatal. It is decidedly an in- 
flammatory disease from repletion of the system, and Nature, in 
trying to get rid of it, produces carditis. 
Please to make the following corrections : — 
In Vol. xvi, page 22, line 25, for “ Antim.” read “ Autumnale.” 
— page 26, line 14, for “ easily,” read “ rarely.” 
THE CHRISTMAS SHOW OF CATTLE. 
This great national exhibition — the greatest of its kind in the 
world — was opened to the public at an early hour on Wednesday 
morning, Dec. 6, 1843, and attended throughout the day by a much 
larger number of visitors than have been known to have attended 
upon any previous occasion. It might be supposed that the in- 
spection of fat stock would be interesting only to a portion of the 
male sex ; but this exhibition has become attractive to females of 
the highest rank. Indeed, a large proportion of the visitors at the 
bazaar were females, who contemplated the different specimens of 
animal beauty with a mixed feeling of curiosity and admiration. , 
The collection of animals this year was not only more numerous, 
but of a more varied description than at any previous exhibition. 
It will be found, on reference to the award of prizes by the judges, 
that the competition has not, as heretofore, been limited to dis- 
tricts adjacent to the metropolis, but that it has taken a much 
wider scope, extending to the more remote parts of the kingdom. 
This may be accounted for in part by the facility of transit af- 
forded by railways, but is in a greater degree attributable to the 
encouragement held out by the Smithfield Cattle Club and the 
Royal Agricultural Society of England, which have induced cattle 
breeders to abandon their old-fashioned treatment of animals, and 
