THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASE IN FRANCE. 
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received being of a rough or coarse nature, would necessarily 
keep up the irritation in the part, where probably a sharp piece 
of turnip fixed itself when the symptoms of choking manifested 
themselves, and which exhibited such extensive disease when 
exposed after death. Cattle always, or at least generally, when in 
health, devour their food very greedily, and the sharp angles of 
turnips when cut into slices are extremely liable, from the hasty 
manner in which they are swallowed, to lacerate or otherwise injure 
the interior of the oesophagus. I would therefore recommend every 
owner of cattle (as I invariably do when called to a cow choking 
from eating raw turnips), who partly feeds his milch cows upon 
turnips, never to give them in a raw state, unless they are crushed, 
but to either steam or boil them — modes of preparation which 
will altogether prevent choking, and perhaps be the means also 
of preventing the loss of many a valuable animal. 
[We shall be happy to receive the communication to which 
Mr. Haycock alludes.] 
ON THE EPIZOOTIC APHTHOUS DISEASE WHICH 
PREVAILED AMONG THE CATTLE, SHEEP, AND 
SWINE IN LE BESSIN, IN THE YEARS 1840 AND 
1841. 
By M. Levigny, V.S . , Camhes. 
[Continued from page 295.] 
In addition to the last complication, of which I have spoken 
in the former article, there is another, much more serious, by 
reason of its not only causing the loss of the transversal liga- 
ment, but also that of the whole of the integument uniting the 
hoofs, as well as a portion of that of the pastern and of the 
coronet, as much before as behind the interdigital cavity. It 
comes away in a single piece, leaving a wound much larger than 
in the first case, having the same offensive smell, and discharging 
a kind of putrid matter, although, nevertheless, the feet are less 
swollen. Like the other, it usually shews itself more particularly 
in the hind feet ; but it may equally attack the fore ones. 
Often the chasm is so great, that it extends even to the hoofs ; 
and then the foot presents one large hideous wound. The inter- 
digital ligaments having sloughed away with the integument, 
leave the lateral internal ligaments bare, together with the ten- 
