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ON THE CHOKING OF CATTLE. 
the whole line of the trachea : on both sides it rose rapidly, and 
produced considerable amendment. I tried fomentation and warm 
bathing for relief of the emphysema, but with little advantage ; 
and, ultimately, had recourse to puncturing and the insertion of a 
number of small setons. The bowels becoming constipated, I gave 
another purgative: considerable caution in the administration of 
which was required, in consequence of the very irritable state of 
the glottis. In a few days, when she began to eat a little boiled 
food, I advised the use of a tonic and restorative treatment. In a 
fortnight the general health was pretty well restored ; but it was 
seven or eight weeks before the emphysema disappeared. It is, 
perhaps, worthy of notice in this case, that, although the extrava- 
sation of air made its appearance at first only in the region of the 
lungs, it soon extended to the subcutaneous cellular tissue of all 
the adjoining parts, being bounded only by the closely adherent 
attachment of the skin to the muscular faschia about the elbow and 
stifle. When at the worst, the animal presented to the eye a 
rotundity of form not to be met with even in the highest-fed 
Christmas ox. There was neither prominence nor depression to be 
seen from the neck to the tail. In fact, she resembled nothing so 
much as a huge overgrown porpoise stuck upon four pins. 
Case IV! — Congestive fever (quarter-ill), having made its 
appearance among the young stock on the farm of S , I was con- 
sulted by the owner, who lives in Banff, if anything could be done 
as a preventive. I advised the use of a dose of ph}^sic and change 
of food. There were twenty-one calves to which this was to be 
applied ; and the medicine w’as prepared by a druggist in town in 
separate doses for each animal, and its administration entrusted by 
the owner to the servants on the farm. It was given about mid- 
day on the 11th, and the animals were turned out, one by one, as 
they got it, into an exposed park on a cold chilly day, and no more 
looked at for several hours. When they were to be housed in 
the afternoon, one of them was found dead, and several more of 
them very ill ; and a man was sent for me express. On hearing 
the case, I was immediately struck with the conviction that a mal- 
administration of the medicine had taken place, and I questioned 
the man as to the manner in which it had been given. He said 
that they made much resistance, and required considerable force 
to hold them, and coughed and “glagered” a great deal; but that 
the grieve held them by the nose and poured it down, and that 
most of them went away blowing desperately. It was dark before 
I got to the farm, so that I did not then see the one that was dead ; 
but I found the other four very ill. They were breathing very 
quick, and evidently much distressed ; head and neck stretched 
out ; nostrils expanded ; coughing occasionally, and blowing from 
