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ON WEEDS IN CATTLE. 
that she had fallen with him on the road, and bruised her knees 
very much. This I found on examination too true, and the mare, 
when in the stables, appeared much pained from a cut in her left 
knee. I immediately washed the wound, and applied the usual 
remedies. To all appearance she was doing well until about the 
tenth day, when I observed a stiffness in her hind legs as she 
walked. 
Cases of tetanus having frequently occurred in the course of 
this season, I dreaded the worst consequences ; and my fears were 
soon realized, as towards night all the symptoms were quite 
apparent. 
I treated the mare as I had done the two others beforemen- 
tioned, but, instead of the blisters having the same effect, to my 
astonishment a different result was produced. They had not been 
applied above a few hours before she became quite frantic, and 
died in that state soon afterwards. Being called to the country, 
where I was detained all night, I had no opportunity of exa- 
mining her after death, for before my return the grooms had 
buried her. This I am sorry for, as the post-mortem appearances 
might have shewed me the cause of her sudden death. 
ON WEEDS* IN CATTLE. 
By Mr. M. Pottie, Yoker, near Glasgow. 
In my practice there occur a great many cases of what are 
termed weeds in cows. The principal part affected is the udder; 
but the disease is not the same as the ordinary garget, or udder 
clap. Garget begins in the udder; weed is preceded by some 
internal commotion. The mode in which I treat this latter 
affection with most success is rather at variance with the rules 
prescribed by the prevailing doctrines of the present day ; and it 
is, therefore, that I beg to offer one or two brief remarks. 
The cow takes a shivering fit, which may last from two to 
twelve hours. This is succeeded by a hot fit. The temperature 
of the body rises, sometimes slowly, at other times quickly ; the 
cow hangs her head, and refuses food ; her eye is red, pulse 
quick, breathing a little hurried, and the back is arched. The 
cow, in short, is fevered. Before the hot fit is established, or 
very soon afterwards, the secretion of milk ceases, and a portion 
of the udder is hot, painful, and swollen. Subsequently an 
* By “ the weeds” the Scotch practitioners mean acute inflammation of 
the udder when the term is applied to cattle, and diffused inflammation of 
the subcutaneous cellular tissue in horses, and particularly in colts. — Edit. 
