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to prevent altogether the accession of the low or typhoid stage ; 
and on this principle I have myself recommended “ early and mo- 
derate” venesection in influenza in horses, notwithstanding I was 
well aware of the low form and accompanying debility which al- 
most invariably followed any severe attack. By some veterinary 
practitioners, indeed, the disease has been named “ Low Fever;” 
and a very significant appellation it is to most cases, but not to 
such as prove but slight or transient, the disease in them disap- 
pearing before it has had time to run into the low fever. Whether 
some of these short-lived cases have been rendered so by timely 
blood-letting, or whether, without blood-letting, the malady would 
have thus taken its departure, is a question which wiser heads than 
mine have left unsettled, and therefore one I must, at all events in 
this place, decline answering. 
It will, I confidently state, be at all hands admitted, that blood- 
letting carried to excess, or even to fulness, or often repeated, in 
every case has done harm — in many cases irreparable harm. The 
fever has speedily assumed its low debilitating form ; the animal 
has grown too weak to walk, or even to stand ; accumulated irrita- 
tion has set the flanks and pulse beating faster than ever ; and 
death, in the midst of great debility and high irritation, has closed 
the scene. 
The question, then, comes to this : — Do we, by early and mode- 
rately bleeding, — by bleeding once or twice (we dare not go farther, 
unless some supervention of bronchitis or pleurisy or pneumonia 
be present) ; do we, I repeat, appear to do good or harm in prac- 
tice ? In a case of pure influenza, — when the symptoms are all 
comprised in sore throat and cough, and heaviness and want of 
appetite and fever, and particularly when any running from the 
nose makes its appearance, — in my opinion, blood-letting is not 
merely uncalled for, but is likely to do harm. 
Extracts from domestic and Foreign Journals, 
Veterinary, Medical, and .agricultural. 
A Table-Spoon found in the Body of a Living Cow. 
By W. A. Cartwright, M.R.C.VS. 
A COW, the property of R. H. Blundell, Esq., of Deysbrook, 
has for some time past been in a sickly condition. Mr. George 
