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ON THE EPIDEMIC IN CATTLE. 
For my own part, l see no reason why small opacities of the 
capsule may not occasionally become absorbed equally with 
every other part of the body. It is astonishing to what extent 
this takes place in the cornea. 
If Mr. Cooper should favour us with any further remarks on 
the subject, I would beg leave to ask him, whether lenticular 
cataracts ever become absorbed in the human subject, leaving the 
eye transparent ? 
On reading over the case in your last number, sent by George 
Stowell, Esq., I was rather surprised to find it called one of vo- 
mition. Now, taking it as reported, I fancy that any veterinary 
surgeon would call it nothing more than an ordinary case of choak- 
ing ; and I believe the probang never passed into the rumen. 
The case mentioned as one of diseased kidney, also reported in 
the last number, by John Joce, Esq., of Swynbridge, one would 
almost fancy, from the symptoms and contents of the stomach, to 
have been one of rabies ; but you, Mr. Editor, can give a better 
opinion than I can on this subject. 
I could have wished the parts about the larynx had been ex- 
amined, which, probably, would have settled the question. 
ON THE EPIDEMIC IN CATTLE. 
By Mr. George Farrow, Ash, Durham. 
[This communication is inserted as giving an interesting account 
of the epidemic in this locality. At the commencement of the 
next year it is the intention of the Editor to give a condensed 
but faithful history of the general character of the disease, when 
justice shall be done to many a kind and faithful chronicler, to 
whose valuable communications we have not yet been enabled 
to pay sufficient attention. — Y.] 
The length of time which has elapsed since I received your 
circular respecting the epidemic amongst cattle, &c., makes me 
almost ashamed to send a reply so late. I should most certainly 
have responded to your call much sooner, but I had nothing to 
add to the many highly interesting papers which you have received 
on the subject. I have been induced, however, to make a few 
brief replies to your queries, thinking they might be useful, 
merely as shewing the identity of the malady in the northern and 
southern counties. 
1. It has not been confined to any particular locality or situa- 
tion ; but it has, either more or less, extended over the whole 
county. 
