INFLAMMATION OF THE JOINTS— MOOSE DEER. 23 
April 1834, she became the property of Mr. Edward Bostock, 
builder, of this town, and, about the middle of the month of June, 
calved a fine bull calf, she being then fourteen months old. A 
short time after, she was seriously injured by falling into a deep 
hole which was in her pasture, and was with difficulty got out : 
she was unable to stand, and was drawn home upon a sledge. 
I was called in to see her, and found her in a pitiable state, having 
lost the use of her hind extremities ; her tail dislocated, and 
other extensive bruises on different parts of her body. After 
being treated for about a fortnight, she recovered. A little time 
after this, she again took the bull, and in the commencement of 
x^ugust last calved two fine bull calves, which she well fed for 
the butcher in five weeks, which proves her to be a good milker. 
She produced three calves before she was two years and four 
months old : she is out of a Montgomeryshire cow, by an Alderney 
bull. 
The other was the property of Mr. Morris Jones, mercer, 
of this town : she was allowed to suck her dam for six months. 
When five months old, she took the bull, and, nine months after, 
calved a fine calf : she was an excellent milker, and, when six 
years old, was a very large beast. 
The above cases, I think, tend to confirm the opinions of 
Mr. Berry and your anonymous correspondent M. S. F., that 
calves that are allowed to suck their dams, are more susceptible 
of early oestrum and impregnation than those that are reared in 
the ordinary way. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
N°. I. 
By Mr. You att. 
Inflammation of the Joints — Moose Deer. 
April 19 th y 1835. — A moose deer, five years old, that had 
shewn evident symptoms of phthisis, but which had yielded to 
the long continued use of the hydriodate of potash, still remains 
unusually gaunt and thin, and its horns are growing very slowly, 
and he has much difficulty in getting rid of his winter’s coat. 
He is to-day observed to be lame in the hind left leg, plainly re- 
ferrible to the fetlock, and there is a little enlargement at the 
division of the phalanges. He is a sadly ferocious fellow, and 
cannot be handled. Give him every night a scruple of Ethiop’s 
mineral, and half an ounce each of sulphur and nitre in a mash. 
April 22d . — The lameness is nearly gone, but, examining him 
more attentively than perhaps I have lately been accustomed to 
