THE EFFECT OF THE SEC ALE CORNUTUM. 
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discharge it by the nose. There was also coma, with low, mut- 
tering delirium. 
“The tongue became singularly tremulous, as also the upper 
extremities ; the pulse fluttering and thread-like and involuntary 
discharges. The swelling of the head and face considerably in- 
creased, extending down to the throat; all which symptoms, after 
progressive aggravation, terminated in death. No post-mortem 
examination was allowed, but the body was in such a state as to 
oblige the friends to have it buried in a few days. 
“ The treatment was not conducted on any defined plan, but 
was varied according to circumstances, so as to meet the more 
urgent symptoms. 
“ P.S. — I could not discover any appearance of his having been 
inoculated ; but having seen a glandered horse some time since, 
and thinking the above unfortunate case so much resembled that 
of this horse, I was induced to inquire of the owner whether there 
was any thing the matter with either of his horses, when he told 
me that one of them was laid up with a bad cold. On examining 
the animal, I found it had a profuse discharge from the nostrils, 
with the glands of the throat very much enlarged. It proved a 
decided case of glanders. The horse died in ten days afterwards.” 
This case is extracted verbatim, and I think is, in many points, 
interesting to the veterinarian and the public. I also believe, 
that had a qualified veterinary surgeon been called in in season 
(which I suppose was not the case), the poor fellow would not 
have fallen a victim to such a melancholy catastrophe, for he 
would then have been advised and cautioned as to the real nature 
of the animal’s disease, from which, without doubt, he became 
affected. 
THE EFFECT OF THE SECALE CORNUTUM IN 
PROTRACTED LABOUR. 
By . Mr. J. Younghusband, Grey stoke. 
1 send for insertion in your valuable periodical — the increasing 
interest of which I observe with pleasure as every month passes 
by — the following account of two cases of lingering parturition, 
in which the effects of the secale cornutum, in exciting uterine 
contraction, were strikingly exemplified. 
CASE I. 
In the spring of 1841, I was summoned to attend a cow that 
had been twelve hours in labour. On my arrival and examining 
the state of the animal, I found the parts well dilated, and a 
