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REVIEW. — CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
with the digestive organs, of the anatomy and physiology of which 
he gives a lengthened and accurate description. The physiologi- 
cal portion is most excellent. We, however, must hasten to the 
diseases, into the consideration of which we shall enter somewhat 
fully. We are disposed to advise our readers to take the volume 
on “ Cattle,” by the writer of this review, and compare together 
the accounts given by the two authors. We do not ask them to 
shew any mercy to the Englishman. We shall be quite content 
if the truth is elicited by a comparison of the two, and that fre- 
quently to the credit of the French Professor. 
“ Inflammation of the Mucous Membrane of the Mouth. — We 
often recognize this as a symptom of other disease, and but rarely 
meet with it as a distinct disease. Let us hear the Professor : — 
“ I have sometimes been consulted about oxen with a hot or 
burning mouth. The tongue is red, the palate swollen ; a thick 
and viscid saliva runs from the mouth, or, sometimes the mouth is 
quite dry. There is a constant disgust to food. This disease ap- 
pears in the spring, after the cattle have been turned into the pas- 
tures. It is a consequence of the turgescence of every part which 
the abundant nutriment suddenly afforded produces, and it is 
usually accompanied by slight inflammation of the stomachs and 
intestines. A bleeding from the j ugular will generally remove it, 
especially if the nutriment be restricted for a little while to gruel 
with less solid food. It sometimes occurs at the beginning of 
winter, in animals that are put up to fatten. This is the conse- 
quence of plethora from the sudden administration of too abundant 
food. Bleeding and water gruel will be all-sufficient. 
“ Barbillons, supposed to be an enlargement of the terminations 
of the sublingual and other glands. It has nothing to do with 
these glands. It is simple inflammation of the buccal membrane, 
with the appearance of pustules. It is usually indicative of in- 
flammation, more or less extensive, of the organs of digestion. 
“ Aphthous Inflammation of the Mucous Membrane of the Mouth. 
(Thrush). — This is apt to occur from the use of damaged food, bad 
water, feeding on plants covered with dew, change and of tempera- 
ture. Little vesicles appear in various parts of the mouth — the 
saliva, mingled with mucus and foam, smells unpleasantly as it 
drivels from the mouth —the tongue is swelled and red — its papillae 
are enlarged — it sometimes hangs out of the mouth, and almost 
threatens the suffocation of the animal. The vesicles break, and a 
small ulcer remains ; these ulcers spread over a considerable portion 
of the tongue and the mouth, and occasionally they reach the pala- 
tine arch. They become contiguous to each other — they form diffe- 
rent groups of ulcers with an elevated callous edge, and sometimes 
they are covered by a black adynamic muco-purulent fluid. 
“ I have always,” says he, “ considered these aphthae as inflam- 
