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STRANGLES IN THE HOUSE, &c. 
On my return from the Edinburgh Veterinary College, in the 
latter end of last April, the Earl of Kingston sent for me, and 
told me that his cows were dying very fast from some disease 
that had been in his farms for the last year, and which his steward 
believed to be incurable. After a minute examination I found 
the symptoms as follow Pulse, in almost all that were affected, 
from 90 to 120, but very small ; horns, ears, and legs cold ; the 
animals heaving violently at the flank, and grunting as if in 
great pain; also grinding the teeth. With the stethescope 
I could discern the bronchial respiration in some, and the mucous 
rale in others. 
Treatment . — In the early stage I bled largely, notwithstand- 
ing that the pulse was small, as I consider that this arises from 
pulmonary congestion, which bleeding removes. I next fired and 
blistered the sides, and gave pulv. veratri alb. 3ss morning and 
night, as long as they could bear it ; and changing it then for 
tart, antimon. and nitre, keeping the bowels open by occasional 
laxatives. With this treatment I cured four out of five of the 
beasts which the steward and attendants considered as sure to 
die, and I have more recovering. 
A gentleman, also, who lives near to me, and who had lost 
seventeen cows with it, had tried a great many remedies, but had 
not saved a patient. He asked me to look at the two last of his 
stock, and which were very ill with a similar disease ; telling me, 
at the same time, that I might try any experiment I wished on 
them, as he knew they would not recover. To his great astonish- 
ment, and with the above treatment, I had them well for him in 
ten days. 
[We have much pleasure in inserting these first Essays of Mr. 
Lord. We should not, perhaps, have been content with the 
small doses of tartarized antimony and nitre which this gentle- 
man prescribed for the horse ; and, possibly, we should have 
preferred digitalis to the hellebore in the treatment of pneu- 
monia in cattle, and especially if they happened to be at a dis- 
tance ; but he succeeded, and with the cattle super-eminently 
so, and we have no right to object. We shall be happy to hear 
again from this gentleman. The first essays of the zealous and 
scientific practitioner will be regarded by us as somewhat sacred 
property ; and we tell our young friends that it is far better 
thus early to commence their scientific career, than to adopt 
that system of secresy and mystery which so many are now 
pursuing. — Y.] 
