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EPIZOOTIC PLEURO-PNEUMONIA 
use the soothing system, by occasionally administering small doses 
of sedative medicine by the mouth, and injections of the same up 
the uterus. We may also, if the discharge from the uterus is 
offensive, use weak injections of the solutions of the chloride of 
lime or soda. 
The French have recourse to a pessary, with a broad shield at 
its base, which they place high up in the vagina, and fasten it to 
the lips of the external opening or the skin by means of the ring or 
suture; but this, I fancy, is seldom had recourse to in our country. 
Instances have been known where the uterus has been ruptured by 
using the pessary in returning it. When we are unable to return 
it into its proper situation in consequence of its being enormously 
swollen, we have no other alternative, but must proceed to ampu- 
tation either with the knife or the ligature. 
[To be continued.] 
AN ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY OF THE LATE 
EPIZOOTIC (PLEURO-PNEUMONIA) IN THE 
BRITISH EMPIRE. 
By Mr. COPEMAN, Walpole. 
Fxperientia Facit Expertum. 
In a popular lecture on this disease, delivered by Hugh Ferguson, 
Esq. in Dublin, in the autumn of 1842 (see VETERINARIAN, 
vol. XV, page 57 5) he states that “ it has now been in this 
island nearly eighteen months, during which time the fatality among 
neat cattle has been in the proportion of twenty to one greater than 
at any former period ” 
But we do not hear of its existence in this country until the 
commencement of 1842, when we find, in several of the public 
papers, paragraphs stating that it was then raging with great fa- 
tality in many of the metropolitan dairy establishments. 
The attention of the veterinary profession was next called to this 
malady by Mr. J. Barlow, of Wilmslow, near Manchester (VETE- 
RINARIAN, vol. XV, p. 438). He states, “I live in a part of 
Cheshire where large dairies of cows are kept ; and, about the 
beginning of this year (1842) a disease termed pleuro-pneumonia 
appeared in this neighbourhood, proving almost invariably fatal. 
Mr. Cox, of Leek, in Staffordshire (VETERINARIAN, vol. XV, 
p. 573), after having minutely described the symptoms of this 
