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by an eight drachm physic ball, which, however, as in the 
previous case, did not operate until four drachms more of aloes 
had been administered next morning. As soon as the 
medicine operated freely, all the symptoms remitted, and the 
animal was evidently very much relieved. The physic had, 
however, no sooner begun to set than all the symptoms 
returned, and the animal appeared as bad as ever. I then 
applied a blister to the poll, and on each side of the neck 
along the course of the cervical vertebrae, and gave more 
cathartic medicine. The symptoms were again relieved on 
the action of the medicine being established, but he once 
more became ill when it stopped. I then bled him in the 
palate, scarifying the part deeply with the lancet, and no 
doubt wounding both the palatine vessels, as there was a 
plentiful flow of scarlet blood, which 1 had some difficulty in 
stopping. This latter step in the treatment seemed to give 
him more permanent relief than anything that had as yet 
been done, as he began from that time to improve, and in a 
few days was quite convalescent. 
PROTRUSION OF THE RECTUM IN A PIG. 
While attending some other cases at a farm in the neigh- 
bourhood of this place, my attention was called to a pig with 
inversion of the rectum. It was so much swollen as to 
render it almost impossible to return it until reduced in size. 
I first scarified the intestine, so as to allow the serum effused 
between the mucous and muscular coats to escape, and then 
replaced it by gently pushing it in. Reprotrusion did not 
occur, and the pig was soon running about and feeding with 
the rest, and ultimately did quite well. 
ON DIARRHOEA IN LAMBS. 
By E. J. Parsons, M.R.C.Y.S., Tiverton. 
Throughout the summer months the pages of your Jour- 
nal have been unusually quiet respecting the diseases to which 
cattle are incident ; although these have been more rife than for 
some few years past, and far more so than those of the equine 
tribe; at least such has been the case lately in my neigh- 
bourhood, and particularly amongst sheep. Among lambs, 
during the past few months, diarrhoea, or the disease vul- 
garly termed “ green scour,” has been very prevalent. I have 
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