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lowing there was a cow in the same state, and without bandage 
of any kind, grazing in a soft damp meadow. Both of them did 
well. The cow lay out night and day, but was kept away from 
all other cattle. 
I think it needless to add more. We know that in the bones 
of the horse where bound by muscles, union generally takes 
place unassisted by bandages, the muscles acting as a bandage ; 
and in the ox, even when fracture takes place at a part where 
there is little or no muscle, Nature has supplied a bandage in 
the form of adventitious matter, which becomes organized, thick- 
ening the parts to three or four times their natural size, and 
which matter becomes again absorbed as soon as the fractured 
bone is perfectly consolidated. 
THE DISEASES OF PIGS. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, F.*S\, Whitchurch . 
INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. 
19 th Jan. 1839. — Tms'day Mr. Corser, of Whitchurch, found 
two fowls in the pig-sty dead, and another missing, and also 
the pig ill, and he suspected that they had all been poisoned. 
The two first I opened. One had been injured about the head 
and neck, and the feathers pulled off ; the other was injured 
about the head, and there was effusion of blood on the brain. 
Symptoms in the Pig . — The night previous had been a very 
cold and wet one, and he was to all appearance wet, cold, and 
starved. He was found in the morning almost helpless, nearly 
blind, and wandering about unconsciously, running against the 
wails or any thing else. The breathing was natural ; the pulse 
rapid and small, and not easily distinguished at the chest. He 
did not seem in any pain. He was bled from the tail and ears, 
and 1 also punctured the roof of his mouth ; but we got little 
blood from him. I gave him §ij ol. ricini, and blistered his neck. 
20th . — About the same. I gave §ij more of ol. ricini. At night 
I gave 3i pulv. jalap, and administered a clyster. 
21st . — A little better; bowels but little open. 
22d . — Worse ; has fits now and then, and screams and roars, 
and is in a good deal of pain. I gave him some goose oil. 
23 d . — He died this morning. 
Examination . — We found a part of the fowl that was missing 
in his stomach, but there were none of her bones. The stomach 
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