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THE EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
Among the sprains of tendons we have had several cases of in- 
juries of the gluteus maximus and psose muscles, both affections 
accompanied by some peculiar symptoms not mentioned by vete- 
rinary authors. The ordinary cases of sprains of the flexor ten- 
don, suspensory ligaments, & c., are included under this head, but 
call for no particular remark. 
The wounds and bruises of the trunk and extremities, including 
injured and open joints, although in some instances severe, call 
for no particular remark, and terminated favourably except in two 
instances. The fractures of bones of the trunk mostly occurred 
during the frost, and existed in the pelvis. Two died, or were 
destroyed, and two appear recovering. We have been particu- 
larly successful in the treatment of canker in the foot, a disease 
usually considered one of the most formidable to which the foot is 
liable. 
The circumstances under which the cases of pneumonia in cattle 
occurred, illustrate, in a striking manner, the necessity there is for 
a veterinary surgeon to be so far acquainted with rural economy 
generally and the domestic management of animals intrusted to 
his medical care, — supplementary to that knowledge required in a 
strictly professional point of view — so as to be able, when disease 
makes its appearance among them, to detect any peculiarity of diet, 
shelter, or situation, remotely causing disease, or operating inju- 
riously on the animal frame. This is a power afforded of directing 
his curative and preventive measures with an efficacy of which 
one destitute of such knowledge could not avail himself. Inform- 
ation of this kind is liberally afforded to the practical students of 
this College by the professor of agriculture in the University 
opening his class to them. 
Jan. bth, 1845. — We visited Mr. Dudgeon’s farm at Humbie, 
where these cases occurred, and found that two oxen had pre- 
viously died, and three were recently affected. The farm is ele- 
vated in situation ; the strawyards are roomy, and the one wherein 
the deaths had happened, and in which only the animals now sick 
were kept, contained forty head of cattle. One end was open to 
the east, from which quarter the wind had mostly blown during 
the previous month. Their litter had also been mostly wet during 
this period. Mr. Dudgeon had lately adopted a plan of feeding 
the cattle in this yard different from that pursued in the others. 
Their turnips are steamed and put hot into tubs about three feet 
deep, containing “ dreg” (distillers’ refuse). This course he adopts 
in order to induce the beasts to take the dreg, which they will not 
do so well by following any other plan he has tried. On putting 
the hot turnips and liquor into the tub, the beasts immediately 
plunge in their heads to search for them. They thus become for 
