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PNEUMONIA IN A CALF TWO DAYS OLD. 
supported by several assistants, and plunged my trocar into the 
middle of the right flank. I then withdrew the trocar, and suf- 
fered the canula to remain, and in a moment the gas began to 
rush violently out, and it burned when a candle was brought 
near to it. In a little while the colicy pains disappeared, and 
the animal got up and searched for something to eat. The 
respiration quieted down, and the pulse became more developed. 
I suffered the canula to remain in the wound for about two 
hours, at the expiration of which time I remarked that the gas 
could no longer be ignited. After having withdrawn the canula, 
I closed the opening into the flank with a little pledget of tow. 
The wound began to suppurate in about fifteen days, but it was 
not until the twentieth day that it perfectly healed. 
During the nights of the 17th and 18th, the patient began to 
void his excrement, but in small quantities, and there were 
found among it two stercoral pellets as large as a cricket-ball. 
I was inclined to believe that the presence of these pellets was 
the principal cause of the indigestion and colic. 
The filly gradually returned to her usual food. She remained 
two years with the same proprietor, and, during that time, there 
was no return of the colic. 
Eec. de Med. Vet., Fevrier 1837. 
PNEUMONIA IN A CALF TWO DAYS OLD. 
By M. Seon, V.S. 
Although the cattle in Basse Normandie are left in the 
pastures all the year round, the cows are usually taken up when 
the time of calving approaches. Sometimes, however, the period 
of parturition is miscalculated, and the little ones are exposed 
to all the sufferings and dangers resulting from so sudden and 
great a change of temperature. 
On the 24th of June 1833, I saw a calf dropped in the night 
of the 22d and 23d in the open field. The herdsman hastened 
on the morning of the 23d to remove it into a comfortable cow- 
house, and then, according to their custom, they forced upon 
it a drink composed of equal parts of barley-water and milk. 
On the morning of the 24th I found it in the following state : — 
It was standing — the flanks agitated — the eyes protruding — the 
mouth open ; the tongue hanging out ; uttering a plaintive 
sound as it breathed ; the respirations from 74 to 76 in a minute ; 
the movements of the heart precipitate and violent ; to be seen 
as it beat against the ribs, to be heard at a little distance, and 
85 in a minute. 
