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nostrils, poultices to the head, enemata were injected, and little food 
allowed. 
29th . — Very little difference, except that swelling was com- 
mencing about the setons. A second bleeding was proposed, but 
the proprietor objected. 
30th . — The inflammation had increased; the cavities of the 
nose were obstructed; the eyes were more opaque, and the appe- 
tite diminished. The setons had not continued to eidarge, and 
there was no suppuration where the horn had been amputated. 
Eleven pounds of blood were taken away, and, as deglutition was 
still easy, six gallons of decoction of linseed, warm and acidulated, 
were given in the course of the day: the nostrils were steamed, 
and the poultices regularly renewed. 
June 2 . — The setons have produced considerable swelling — a 
fetid suppuration proceeds from the stump of the horn — the inflam- 
mation of the nostril is not increased, nevertheless there is a flux 
of somewhat fetid bloody mucus from the nostrils, but without any 
fragments of membrane. The eyes were more clouded. Six pounds 
of blood were abstracted, and the swelling at the seton place sca- 
rified. A considerable quantity of red blood escaped from the 
scarifications. The general treatment continued. 
8 th . — The appetite continues, but the discharge from the nostrils 
discolouring, and, giving a foetid smell to the gruel, the animal re- 
fuses it — the eyes are in the same state — the spirits are better, 
and the head is not carried so low. The lotions, and injections into 
the nasal cavity discontinued, but the other treatment continued. 
From this time the patient began to improve, but the discharge 
from the nose continued until the 13th, and the eyes were not clear 
until six weeks afterwards. 
Case VI. — June 5, 1825. A young cow, in the sixth month 
of her first pregnancy, is suddenly become blind ; the respiration 
is difficult, and there is a flow of bloody and infectious mucus from 
the mouth. The proprietor would not suffer more than two pounds 
of blood to be abstracted. He afterwards permitted one horn to be 
amputated, but had the hemorrhage stanched at the expiration of 
ten minutes. Two setons were inserted, and recourse was had to 
the fumigations, and lotions, and poultices, and injections, described 
in the former cases. M. Mullon retired, displeased with the ob- 
stinacy of the peasant, and was not recalled until after the death 
of the cow, which took place on the 10th. The brain was soft- 
ened, or rather dissolved, in a quantity of fluid, with which the 
cranium was filled. 
Case YII. — Aug. 26, 1829. A cow had inflammation of the 
conjunctiva — the lucid cornea was almost opaque — a bloody mu- 
cous fluid ran from the nose, the appetite was impaired, and she 
was in the seventh month of utero-gestation. Here, also, M. M. 
