142 DISEASE 01? THE SPLEEN IN CATTLE, 
and applied to the throats the following liniment : 
Liq. Ammonise fort., 
01. Tereb., 
01. Lini, aa part, equal. 
Misce fiat linimentum. 
On the next day I found them a little better. I repeated 
the medicine, and in a few days they were all recovered. 
A short time after this, one of three yearlings was found 
dead. My attention was then directed to some others, and to 
them I administered the same kind of medicine as that already 
described, under which treatment they all recovered. After 
this, two others were taken ill, and after having only one dose 
of medicine each, they died in two or three hours, making, I 
think, nine that had died. After this, those that were any- 
way suspicious were sold to the butchers, as they were all, 
except the cows, and the three just mentioned, feeding beasts 
from three to four years old. 
Remarks . — My opinion is, that they died from disease of 
the spleen, this being brought on by the long-continued hot 
and dry summer. The pasture was very short until the rain 
in July, which caused the eddish to grow very fast; and as 
the feeding beasts were none of them ill before going to the 
eddish, the probability is that the blood was in a vitiated 
state, and when thus brought into a luxuriant pasture, and 
being irritated by the flies, congestion would be caused, and 
death. 
With reference to the case adverted to by Mr. Cherry, I 
beg to say that in the first instance it was supposed to have 
been a bruise caused by the mare running away and coming 
in contact with a gate. This might have been the case, 
although there was no abrasion. A rowel was inserted, 
and, some little time after, the animal came under my care, 
when I applied fomentations, and subsequently a blister, 
which had no good effect. I then wanted to dissect the mass 
out, to which the owner would not consent, but said I might 
try to disperse it. Now as I thought it to be an enlarge- 
ment of the thyroid gland, bronchocele in fact, I determined 
upon using the compound iodine ointment, but it proved of 
no benefit whatever. I therefore again blistered it, and with 
the same result. I then passed a seton through it, which 
remained in for a long time, and discharged well ; but all was 
to no purpose. After the seton was taken out, however, and 
the wound healed, it began to enlarge very much, and con- 
tinued to increase in size until I operated upon it ; and it was 
not until then that I thought it to be of a cancerous nature. 
