(ESOPHAGOTOMY ON A COW. 
569 
We shall, therefore, bring our translations on the subject of ino- 
culation for small-pox to an end, with the 32d and last paragraph, 
in which we find embodied the following 
General Conclusions. — Sheep-pox is a contagious disease, 
annually prevalent among the flocks of sheep in France, and fre- 
quently occasioning fearful ravages among them ; the existing 
sanitary measures for protection against general and epizootic pox 
being, for the most part, insufficient to confine the disorder within 
limits, and stay its progress. Inoculation, either of the flocks al- 
ready infected or of those menaced inevitably with it, may ac- 
complish this ; and yet a measure so simple, facile, and service- 
able cannot, at the present day, be legally put into execution, so 
long as it remains unrecognised by our sanitary veterinary laws. 
We have, therefore, no alternative but to come definitively to a 
conclusion; vexatious when one comes to consider that it is a 
question touching the conservation of 33 millions of sheep pos- 
sessed by France for feeding and clothing her 33 millions of 
population. 
Recueil de Mtdecine Veterinaire, April 1848. 
CEsophagotomy on a Cow. 
By BAUDIUS, Veterinary Surgeon, Merseburg , Prussia. 
It seemed that this cow had got to a basket of potatoes which had 
been left in the yard, and had bolted several pieces, some of which 
had lodged in her throat. The following symptoms were observed : — 
A large quantity of frothy discharge from the mouth — the eyes 
wide open and glassy — the tongue black and protruding from the 
mouth — respiration increased, laborious, and very audible — pulse 
80. In the course of the oesophagus, about midway between the 
head and the chest, there was a hard tumour about the size of a 
hen’s egg. On pressing this tumour with the thumbs and fore-fingers 
of both hands, in order to move it, the cow evinced such pain that 
it required three assistants to hold her. No efforts, however, could 
move it in the least, either backward or forward. Attempts were 
made to force it down by the introduction of the probang, but on 
this the animal became so unruly that it was necessary to desist 
from any further trials. And, as the tympanitis was very great and 
increased with every effort, as a last resource, the operation was 
proposed by Herr Baudius, and to it the proprietor at once con- 
sented. The cow was instantly cast and secured, the head being 
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