496 ESSAY ON INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. 
the tumour at the dewlap was cauterized with the hot iron, and a 
cord covered with digestive ointment was passed through it. The 
ulcerations in the nostrils have quite disappeared : the appetite and 
strength of the animal have returned. The medicine is discon- 
tinued, but injections are still used. Green maize, and not too 
abundantly, is given as food. 
Aug. 14 th . — The general health of the animal is materially 
improved, but the blindness remains. The proprietor, becoming 
impatient, would have had the animal slaughtered, but this was 
opposed by M. Mullon, who thought he could perceive that the 
opacity was beginning to be a little diminished at the edge of the 
cornea. From this time the opacity did evidently, although slowly, 
diminish ; and on the 19th of September, and three months after 
the first attack of the disease, the animal returned to his work. 
Case IV. — Sept . 19 th, 1819. A cow had been ill five or six 
days. M. Mullon found her lying in a meadow, her head ex- 
tended, and she unable to rise. The spot on which her head 
lay was covered with bloody mucus, and portions of the lining 
membrane of the nostrils. The eye was opaque, and of a deep 
white colour ; the inflammation of the larynx was extreme, and the 
animal was almost insensible. Eight pounds of blood were ab- 
stracted ; the horns were cut off, and the blood suffered to flow 
abundantly from the wounds ; four setons were applied about the 
head and neck, two on each side, and disposed as in the last case. 
20 th . — No discharge from the setons, and the cow in the same 
general state. The owner, in moving the head, thought that he 
heard the noise of some substance floating within the cranium. 
M. Mullon heard the same several times. She was now in a state 
of complete immobility. Her respiration was so feeble that it 
was almost doubtful whether she lived. In this state she remained 
until the night between the 23d and the 24th, when she died. 
On opening the head, the brain, the cerebellum, and the pons 
varolii ( mtsocephale ) were found shrunk and hardened, and resem- 
bling a ball attached to the spinal cord. This mass, floating in 
the cranium, produced the sound which had been heard. “ It is 
inconceivable,” says M. Mullon, “ how an animal could live four 
or five days the brain being in such a state of induration and con- 
traction. I would not have believed it, if I had not seen it. It is a 
satisfactory proof that the animal life can be extinguished a long 
time before the organic life.” 
Case V . — May 23, 1823. A Champagne ox, one of the most 
beautiful races in Europe, had lost its appetite, carried its head 
low, the eyes were inflamed, clouded and weeping, and inflamma- 
tion had commenced in the nostrils. Seventeen pounds of blood 
were abstracted, and one horn was cut off and suffered to bleed. 
Two setons were placed in the neck, fumigations applied to the 
