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The country people believe, retention of the placental mem- 
branes, also cows being frightened, especially if they smell 
blood, are causes of the affection, but Schmidt has not 
observed that such was the case. 
To cure these cows radically, it is essential to spay them ; 
but in most cases Schmidt recommends the danger of the 
operation not to be incurred, and the animals are to be sold 
to the butcher. — Mag. fur die ges. Thierheil ., April, 1855. 
Violent desire for sexual intercourse, amounting to a 
morbid condition — called satyriasis in the mal z, furor uterinus , 
hysteromania or nymphomania in the female — -has, so far as my 
knowledge extends, not been described by British veteri- 
narians. Does the disease exist, or does it not, in our island? 
I glean from Professor Hering’s learned work on the e Patho- 
logy of the Domestic Animals , 5 that the affection is most fre- 
quent in the female, especially the mare and cow. 
Rychner, in his f Buyatric , 5 alludes to the fact that there is 
nothing in common between tuberculosis and nymphomania 
beyond that they are sometimes concomitant. 
Essmann has described, in Gurlt’s Magazine for 1848, 
an over-excited state of the generative organs in cows that 
have recently calved; the animals bellow much, butt with 
their horns, become emaciated without tuberculous deposits in 
the thorax, but on the contrary, the ovaries are enlarged and 
contain large serous cysts. 
Schneider has spoken of a form of the affection in which 
the animals were bulling every fourth or sixth week, but 
sometimes they would die in convulsions in from a few hours 
to three days. After death, blood was found effused in the 
uterus, and even in the broad ligaments; the ovaries were 
gorged with blood. 
A Remarkable Lameness in a Cow. — Carl Hollmann 
was requested, on the 4th of August, 1854, to attend on a 
cow that had been lame several days. On examining her he 
found an injury to the sole of the near hind foot, but having 
cured this the lameness persisted. When moved out of the 
stable a second time, it was observed that it was with diffi- 
culty she lifted the lame leg over the high threshold of the 
shed. Nothing peculiar was discovered about the hock, but 
it appeared that the patella was not free in its action over 
the femur. There was no swelling around the stifle but 
some pain on pressure. The cause of the lameness was 
unknown, and the proprietor only knew that the cow had 
returned lame one evening from the field in which she had 
been grazing. Hollmann caused the lame limb, especially 
round the stifle, to be strongly rubbed; and he saw 
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