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I could not ascertain how long these thrombi had been in exist- 
ence. It was twenty-three days after the last bleeding when I saw 
her, although that was long enough for a complete closure, accord- 
ing to every day’s experience ; yet I can suppose that the vein, 
having to support an unusual column of blood in consequence of 
grazing, suffered a trifling displacement of the edges of the wounds, 
so as to admit the escape of a small quantity into the surrounding 
cellular membrane ; but having allowed some to escape, how was 
it not followed by more, and the tumours existing without the 
slightest inflammation 1 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE GOITRE IN MONTREAL. 
In a letter Mr. Wm, Percivall has recently received from his 
cousin, Mr. Chas. Percivall, now stationed with the artillery in 
Canada, the latter states, that “ out of sixty horses quartered at 
this place (Montreal) thirty are affected with bronchocele , or 
‘ goitria,’ as it is here called ; without suffering, however, the 
slightest inconvenience, apparently, from it. To what such gene- 
ral prevalence of this disease is attributable I have yet to learn. 
Every body in the country ascribes it to the snow and iced water. 
Lamenesses are very common here, especially those arising from 
disease of hock, spavin, &c. Indeed, it is rather rare to meet 
with a sound horse, though the natives will have it that they 
all go sound as soon as the ground becomes covered with snow. 
If true, this may arise from diminished concussion, the common 
pavement of the roads here being hard wood planking.” 
ABOMASUMITIS IN THE REARING OF HAND-FED 
CALVES. 
By Mr. Read. 
Inflammation of the fourth stomach of the calf is but too 
often met with in the routine of the country practitioner. The 
annual loss of calves to the farmer in my district has been serious 
during my professional career. It is, I may say, almost always 
produced by giving the calf hot milk, that is, milk the temperature 
of which is a great many degrees above the milk of the cow. 
When calves are taken from the cow and intended for rearing, 
