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PARALYTIC AFFECTION IN HORSES. 
male animals who have undergone the operation. The meat of the 
castrated cow is tender and juicy ; more savoury than that of the ox. 
The introduction of castrated cows upon grazing farms would, 
we feel no hesitation in averring, prove a step in the improvement 
of agriculture ; since this operation not only affects the milk and the 
fattening, but tends likewise to the amelioration of breed, by 
rendering barren such cows as are unfit for reproduction. 
The duration of the milk in the castrated cow, although at all 
times much longer than in the cow unoperated on, is nevertheless 
variable. It depends on the time when the operation is performed, 
on the breed of the cow, on her age, and on her condition and state 
at the time. In those that have long time calved, and that are 
aged, and either too scantily or too abundantly supplied with food, 
the milk dries up sooner. 
To obtain the best results from the operation, cows with their 
third or fourth calf should be preferred, and the best time for its 
performance is from thirty to forty days after calving. This is the 
time when the milk is most abundant, and that the flesh proves 
of the best quality should the milk dry up. 
As to the manual operation requisite to bring about this 
desirable state, this is not the place to speak of it: I shall do so at 
another time, in a work specially devoted to the subject. 
Extracts from Domestic Journals. 
“ KUMREE,” OR PARALYTIC AFFECTION IN 
HORSES. 
By GURNEY Turner, late Civil Surgeon , Midnapore. 
\_From the First No. of “ The India Register of Medical Science .”J 
Allow me, through the medium of your Journal, to call the 
attention of our professional brethren, especially the veterinarians, 
to that paralytic or paraplegic affection (for it assumes both forms) 
in horses, known to us as “ going in the loins,” and to natives as 
“ Kumree.” 
All men in India are horse owners on a larger or smaller scale, 
and many constantly out of the reach of scientific veterinary aid ; 
and as this disease has hitherto been considered incurable, and is 
