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companied by enormous Jics (grapes). This method of treat- 
ment was introduced by an old professor of this school, now a 
veterinary practitioner at Paris. 
M. Renault, who superintends or performs the operations which 
the respective cases may require, is engaged in a course of ex- 
periments, with a view of ascertaining the dangers by which the 
principal ones may or may not be accompanied, and the degree 
in which they may be simplified, or otherwise modified. These 
experiments are made in the presence of the pupils, and cannot 
fail of being profitable to them, while they will serve as the basis 
of a work which M. Renault is preparing on “ Veterinary Sur- 
gery.” 
Recueil de Med. Vet. Septernbre 1836. 
ON WOOD-EVIL AND MOOR-ILL, IN REPLY TO 
Messrs. MAYER and SURGINSON. 
By Mr. W. Cox, of Leek. 
I feel myself called upon to make a few observations on the 
papers of Messrs. Mayer and Surginson on Wood-evil and Moor- 
ill, contained in the last number of The Veterinarian, and 
to illustrate these observations by a practical fact or two. 
If Mr. Mayer will again look over my communication, he will 
find that I merely stated the opinion of various farmers as to 
the complaint which I call moor-ill, and which he thinks I have 
confounded with a kind of rheumatism of frequent occurrence 
on cold and wet ground. May I not ask him whether, out of 
fifty-two cases of this disease which I have seen this year, both 
in the commencement and the advanced stages of it, I should 
not have observed the swelled joints, and other symptoms of that 
complaint, described by Mr. Youatt in his work on Cattle, and 
by other writers of minor authority, if it had in truth been a kind 
of rheumatism, whether chronic or acute ? 
I was called this summer to see a cow belonging to Mr. Snow, 
of Park-head, that had inflammation of the liver. On looking 
over his dairy I found three cows affected with what I call 
moor-ill. He told me that it was a complaint produced by the 
pasture on which they had fed ; but that as soon as he put them 
on his after-grass they would mend, which they did. I observed 
that the first pasture and the meadow-ground were contiguous — 
they were separated by a wall. May I not here ask, would the 
chilling wind of September and October, exchanged for the 
warm weather of June, July, and August, cure “a kind of rheu- 
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