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ENLARGED THYROID GLANDS IN A COW. 
A powerful blistering liniment composed, for instance, of 
pulv. canthari., pulv. g. euphorb., terebinth, venet., pulv. ant. 
tart., and ol. lini, should be applied down the course of the trachea, 
and over the sides from the spine to the sternum. As blisters 
are sometimes ineffectual on the skin of cattle, scalding water 
or the actual cautery may be used. Setons may be inserted by 
those who prefer them. 
In many cases perseverance in these means will, at the expiration 
of three or four days, find the inflammatory symptoms reduced 
without effusion. Notwithstanding all the practitioner can do, 
effusion into the pulmonary tissue or thorax will sometimes, or 
indeed often, occur. The treatment must then be accordingly mo- 
dified. Potass, hydriod., hydrarg. submur., with tonics vegetable 
or mineral, diuretics, and stimulants must be largely given, even 
despite of some lingering inflammatory action. There is in cattle, 
under circumstances wherein stimulants would be absolutely poi- 
sonous to the horse, an idiosyncrasy frequently rendering their 
administration positively beneficial. The action of mercury ren- 
ders it needful to be strictly watched, as death will inevitably occur 
if it is pushed beyond moderate bounds, for, after all, it does not 
seem very congenial to this class of our patients. The best mode 
of giving it is in small doses, or not much exceeding a scruple. 
Small doses often repeated will act more safely than larger ones, 
and with much better effect. To persons, however, acquainted 
with the nature and actions of these medicines, no cautions need 
be given, and other persons who employ them will most likely do 
so to their loss. 
Notwithstanding the squills, asafcetida, and balsam of tolu have 
not much repute in the modem veterinary pharmacy, I really 
think that they are in some stages of this disease useful in con- 
junction with other remedies. 
When the disease is once arrested, nature slowly restores the 
animal, in assisting which a course of mineral tonics is often of 
service. 
CASE OF ENLARGED THYROID GLANDS IN A COW. 
By Mr. W. H. Coates, F.S., Gainsborough . 
Having observed several accounts in The Veterinarian 
of enlarged thyroid glands in cattle, and the modus operandi of 
them, I am induced to give a short account of the treatment 
which I have adopted, and found most beneficial. Formerly I 
used frequently to remove them with the knife, but this practice 
