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CASES OF QU1TTOR. 
It may be thought by some that the treatment of a large stock 
will entail too much labour ; but surely any labour is well bestowed 
that will check such a disease as this. It is in vain for you to call 
in professional assistance when the disease has nearly arrived at 
its termination. Extensive observation has convinced me that it 
is only curable by the prompt and decided measures had recourse 
to in its early stages ; and I am persuaded, if you will carry out 
the suggestions to which I have directed your attention, you may 
in a great measure prevent those extensive disastrous results 
which have taken and are now taking place in many important 
districts. 
I do not think that, in the commencement of the disease, it 
is infectious. All the flock that have been exposed in the same 
atmosphere may have the seeds of the disease deposited within 
them ; but it is only when the system is overcharged with a super- 
abundant quantity of the poison, which then begins to be thrown 
out by the breath, that it becomes contagious. I should, however, 
advise that you separate those that cough from those that do not. 
There is no necessity, unless the weather is very bad, for you to 
keep your stock up during the time they may be under treatment. 
I have generally found, when I have had a chance, that the cough 
has been removed by bleeding and the administration of laxative 
medicine, such as Epsom salts, either alone or in combination 
with nitre and digitalis, repeated as occasion requires; but should 
the disease continue to pursue its course, take the best assistance 
you can, as, from the varied changes the disease assumes in its pro- 
gress, each requiring corresponding treatment, none but a veteri- 
nary surgeon of experience and practical tact can grapple with it, 
and he, if only consulted in a later stage, with little or no success. 
CASES OF QUITTOR, RUPTURED VEIN, AND 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
By Henry Draper, M.R.C.V.S., Chelsea , Leighton Buzzard, 
Bedfordshire. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian." 
Dear Sir, 
If you will find space in your Periodical for insertion of the 
three cases I herewith send you, I shall feel obliged. I deeply 
regret that the members of our profession, with some exceptions, 
do not more frequently report their interesting cases : to do so 
would be highly beneficial to the junior practitioner, and, if I mis- 
take not, would have a tendency to make veterinary surgery and 
