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entirely without risk ; for the apparatus was removed immediately 
after falling, and the effect lasted for some four minutes afterwards. 
It was stated that the pulse rose to 120 per minute. 
The rupture of the diaphragm and of the aorta was, no doubt, 
the result of the violent action of the respiratory organs : in all 
probability, the diaphragm was the first, and the aorta gave way 
at the time the hind legs were suddenly drawn up. 
We are of opinion that these lesions were not produced by 
the act of falling, but were the result of the powerfully excited 
respiration. Our next observations will be for the purpose of 
ascertaining to what extent the difficulties which we have related 
can be met or removed, the question being too important to be 
allowed to rest without the fullest inquiry. 
Apologising for the unavoidable length to which this account has 
run, We are, yours, &c. 
REFLECTIONS ON CATTLE PATHOLOGY— ITS 
NEGLECTED STATE— ITS VALUE AS A 
SCIENCE TO THE COMMUNITY. 
By W. Arthur Cherry, V.S. 
Errors like straws upon the surface flow : 
He who would search for pearls must dive below. 
Dryden. 
It seems that, at last, the feelings of stock-owners are aroused 
to the necessity for more accurate knowledge of the diseases 
to which the animals reared for the food of mankind are liable. 
It is true that this new movement is only one more to be added 
to the long list of similar attempts which have been more or 
less prominently made during the last century ; but hitherto 
every effort has but proved a desultory one, and, after a linger- 
ing existence, silently dropped into oblivion. But, alas ! for the 
present well-being of our stock-owners, a dire disease, the visita- 
tion of an all-seeing Divine Providence, doubtless for some inscru- 
table but wise end, has been raging with fearful violence over 
kingdoms and districts throughout a large portion of the globe. 
This calamity has at last aroused attention, and different indeed is 
now the cry to that which was made at the commencement of this 
dire malady. Some few reflective minds foresaw the probable 
results of that at the onset, which, thought lightly of by most, has 
so fully borne out the fears the thoughtful entertained. The bulk 
of men then laughed at such predictions, looked on the prognosti- 
