REVIEW — CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
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deglutition of every pellet of hay, it rested during a considerable 
period at that spot, which seemed to fatigue and annoy the animal, 
and it was not until after repeated efforts that the pellet passed 
into the rumen. 
Turpentine frictions were applied to the part, and these painful 
efforts to- swallow were in some degree lessened by feeding the 
animal with very thick gruel and potatoes boiled to a pulp : but, 
as this manner of feeding could not be continued for ever, and the 
swelling remained undiminished, the proprietor at length determined 
that the tumour should be extracted. The animal was thrown, 
and its limbs were tied. M. Dandrieu then made a longitudinal 
incision through the skin, in the direction of the oesophagus, and 
soon reached its muscular membrane, which was of a livid colour, 
and covered the scirrhus. The tumour was beneath the surface of 
the mucous membrane, and by its volume and its hardness, it 
had produced a projection into the canal, which in a great mea- 
sure obstructed the passage through the oesophagus. “ I completely 
isolated the tumour from the parts with which it was in contact,” 
says M. Dandrieu, “ and removed it. The two edges of the wound 
were reunited by two points of suture, and covered by a large 
pledget of tew moistened with brandy diluted with water. A 
bandage supported the dressings, and which was afterwards kept 
moist with vinegar and water. Two days afterwards the dressings 
were removed, and nothing more was done than to bathe the wound 
for fifteen days with a little warm wine. The wound was then 
healed, and the cure complete.” 
The pathology of the ox is not rich in facts of this kind : perhaps 
the following may not be uninteresting. The students of the French 
schools, after a certain standing, are permitted to have patients of 
their own under the occasional surveillance of a professor. There 
are reasons for and against this. Two of the pupils attached par- 
ticularly to him, had, April 6, 1835, one of these patients. It was 
a cow with a considerable tumour stretching across the upper part 
of the neck, at the situation of the jugulars, and more considerable 
on the left side than on the right. After having carefully examined 
it, they gave her a few leaves to eat, part of which she swallowed, 
but the rest was rejected with a considerable quantity of saliva. 
They thought that some foreign body was entangled in the oeso- 
phagus, founding their belief of this on the confession of the pro- 
prietor, that he had fed his cows on raw carrots and potatoes, and 
the refuse of the garden. They did not reflect that, having been 
gradually developed, the tumour could scarcely be attributed to a 
foreign body. The cow had not eaten for the last four days ; and 
this, in the opinion of these young surgeons, indicated approaching 
death. An operation that would relieve was, in their opinion, of 
