IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE. 
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CASE X. — J. G. C — , Esq., of U — , on the 6th of January, 1844, 
bought eight three-year-old Irish beasts at Norwich market. They 
were put up to fatten at an off-farm, and were doing well up to 
the 15th of February, when one was attacked, and, after lingering 
about a fortnight, died. Three others were shortly afterwards at- 
tacked, but, as they were fair beef, were sent to the butchers : the 
right lung of one of these weighed nearly forty pounds, although 
he had been killed as soon as the disease was fully detected. As 
symptoms of disease, i. e. hoosing, were present in the other 
four, they were taken to Norwich, and sold. 
CASE XI . — July 3 d, 1844. — I was this morning requested 
by Mr. L., of L , to attend a cow labouring under pleuro- 
pneumonia. Mr. L., who is a very intelligent farmer, gave me 
the following history of the rise and progress of this disease upon 
his farm. Early in December 1843 he purchased of a stock- 
dealer two Irish bullocks, and tied them up to fatten with four out 
of a lot of eight short-horns bought of a neighbour. The other four 
were sent directly to another farm ; and they all fattened and did 
well. He observed that the Irish beasts were frequently hoosing; 
still they got fat quickly, until the 20th of February, when one was 
attacked. He was immediately removed from the others, and died 
in a few days. Mr. L. now observed that the short-horns began 
hoosing, and on the 13th of March the one in the adjoining stall 
to the Irish beast refused his food. He was directly slaughtered. 
His left lung was very much enlarged, firmly adherent to his ribs, 
and that side of the chest contained about one gallon of fluid. On 
the 15th the other Irish bullock fell off his food, and he was slaugh- 
tered. In the course of the following month the other short-horns 
were attacked, and slaughtered. Mr. L., who, I might observe, 
was a firm non-infectionist, had placed in the adjoining yard a bull, 
a steer, and a heifer in calf; and after the death of the Irish beast 
the bull was tied up in his place. He was attacked next after the 
bullocks, and a short time after him the steer. They were both 
slaughtered. The heifer escaped, and has since calved. The 
stock buildings are all closely connected. Next, one of the 
cows, out of a dairy of thirteen, was attacked. This occurred on 
the 16th of June, and she died on the 20th. She was, during her 
illness, attended by the same cowleech as Mr. G., of C., in 
Case IY, and was treated on the same system. The cow to 
which my attention was now called, his man had bled twice. She 
was evidently fast sinking, and died on the following day. 
Mr. L. has since sold all the remaining cows. 
Observations: Norwich. — At this city the largest stock- 
market in that part of the country is held on every Saturday ; and 
at two seasons of the year, viz. autumn and spring, great numbers 
