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sided, but the patient was continually moaning — the tongue still 
hung out, and the saliva dropped from the mouth. 
Imagining that the presence of some foreign body in the dia- 
phragmatic portion of the oesophagus might have something to do 
with the distress of the animal, I administered a bottle of olive oil. 
Half of it was ejected by forcible contraction of the muscles of 
deglutition, as in vomiting. Some time after that the animal was 
purged. To this succeeded an almost immediate remission of the 
symptoms, which led me to believe that the strangulated body had 
passed into the rumen. 
This animal coughed occasionally during several days, and was 
sometimes blown after feeding ; but being submitted to proper 
treatment, he became well, and returned to his ordinary work. 
I do not know what ultimately became of him, for I lost sight of 
him. 
Zooiatre du Midi. 
[These are interesting cases. It is very easy to conceive that, in 
the first of them, the adhesion of the paunch to the left flank 
and diaphragm would very much limit the power of the stomach 
to make the food revolve through its different compartments, 
and that the consequence of its slow progress, and, occasionally, 
the total arrest of its march, would favour this fermentation, or 
necessarily produce it. We can also readily believe that the 
pressure of these enormous tumours on the oesophagus would, 
to a certain degree, interfere with the process of rumination, and 
might totally prevent the occasional eructation of the extricated 
gas, and the relief thereby obtained ; and it would be interesting 
in cases of intermittent hoove to examine, after the death of the 
animal, whether the thoracic cavity contained any of these abnor- 
mal growths. We should be directed to a valuable diagnosis 
and prognosis too. The truth of the matter, however, is, that 
we have too many of these cases of intermittent hoove. It 
is rare that the over-distended stomach of the hoven beast quite 
recovers its former energy. Rumination is suspended after the 
slightest debauch, and, perhaps, is seldom effectually performed. 
In the great majority of cases it -will be prudent to get the 
hoven beast ready for the market as quickly as that can with 
safety be effected. — Y.] 
