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remove them to the stable, for the heat was very great, and I 
was fearful of the consequences of the struggle which would 
probably take place. 
30 th . — No better. One of the bulls began to refuse his food ; 
the others ate with appetite. I then proposed to stimulate the 
loins actively, and to continue the frictions of hot vinegar. This 
produced no good effect, and towards night the proprietor began 
to despair ; nevertheless the heifer, of which we had taken little 
account (for she had not fallen at all) had regained all her 
strength, and was discharged from the sick list. The proprietor, 
wearied with seeing three days pass without any amendment of 
the patients, told me that he was decided to send them on the 
morrow to the butcher, but that he would first consult an em- 
piric who lived about two leagues off. The animals were thus 
taken from me, and I expressed my regret that l was not per- 
mitted to witness the conclusion of the case, and especially the 
effect of the stimulus on the loins, and from which 1 yet hoped 
something. 
The empiric came in the morning, and found the four bulls 
pretty nearly in the state in which I had left them, except that 
two of them were making efforts to get up, and which they had 
not attempted during the last two days. He caused their loins 
and backs to be rubbed with an ointment, the composition of 
which was known to himself alone, and ordered them to be com- 
pletely covered with sheep’s dung. In the course of the day the 
two that had begun to struggle got up ; and of the other two, one 
raised himself during the next night, and the last of them on 
the following day. Eight days afterwards I saw them in the 
field, with no other trace of their illness than a slight weakness 
of the hind quarters, and the suppuration produced by my sti- 
mulants, the discharge from which had not ceased. 
Rec. de Med. Vet., Fev. 1836. 
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By Professor Vatel, Alfort. 
[Continued from page 1 13.] 
VI. — Castration by the ClAms. 
This is chiefly practised on the horse, the ass, and the mule. 
It is seldom adopted for the bull, unless there is reason to fear 
that the operation by bistournage cannot be executed. 
The necessary instruments are, a keen convex bistoury, or a 
razor; two pieces of packthread, moderately strong ; a pair of 
pincers or forceps, and the clams. 
