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the horns. This also was refused, and he was compelled to limit 
his remedial measures to fumigations, emollient injections, ene- 
mata, restricted diet, &c. On the 18th of July, the 21st of the 
disease, he found the cow in a state of dreadful suffering. He 
staid and witnessed her death, and on afterwards examining her, 
found the brain in a state of induration. 
Case III. — A beautiful ox, of the Auvergne breed, and six 
years old, had been ill six days. The early symptoms resembled 
inflammation of the larynx : but, rendered aware of the real cha- 
racter of the disease by the preceding cases, M. Mullon ab- 
stracted twelve pounds of blood, had recourse to emollient fumi- 
gations, while injections of the same kind, but slightly acidulated, 
were thrown up the nostrils, which were in a state of ulceration. 
These fumigations and injections were repeated every two hours, 
and were followed by the discharge of much mucus and portions 
of detached membrane, and the breathing was thereby rendered 
more free. A poultice of mallow roots was applied to the crown 
of the head, and renewed twice in the day, and emollient injec- 
tions, a little warm, were freely used. 
The animal ate a little green meat, and drank some gruel. 
Drinks of a decoction of mallows, thickened with oatmeal, were 
administered, very slowly and gently, on account of the difficult 
respiration. 
18 th . — He was no better. Twelve pounds more of blood were 
abstracted, and one of the horns was cut off, four inches from its 
base, which also produced a very considerable hemorrhage. I in- 
troduced also two setons, charged with blister ointment and cor- 
rosive sublimate; the one commencing at the poll, and directed 
obliquely backwards and downwards, for the space of nine inches, 
near to and above the jugular ; the other commencing at the termi- 
nation of the former, and reaching to the dewlap. 
19 th . — The patient was better — the inflammation of the inte- 
rior of the nasal cavities was much diminished, and several flakes 
of the pituitary membrane, of considerable size, and of a most 
infectious smell, were detached. 
20?A. — The air passed freely through the nasal passages, and 
without any hoarse or whizzing sound; the bloody discharge from 
the nostril was diminished, and was less fetid. The wound in the 
horn had begun to suppurate, and was dressed with simple diges- 
tive ointment. The two setons had produced very considerable 
swelling, which extended towards the dewlap, and was there as 
large as the animal’s head. M. Mullon scarified it deeply, and 
produced considerable discharge of blood. The former treatment 
continued. 
23c?. — The cornea is opaque ; the wound in the horn suppurates 
well, and the pus runs abundantly. No discharge from the setons ; 
