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had died of a similar malady; and was also told that several 
people have been similarly affected by eating sheep that had 
died from the effects of leaping-ill; but they probably suffered 
from indigestion alone, as many of the shepherds have not eaten 
so plentifully of mutton for many years, and some of them, un¬ 
doubtedly, have filled themselves too full. 
A CASE OF ENORMOUS POLYPUS IN THE UTERUS 
OF A COW. 
By the same. 
A very singular and enormous enlargement was taken out of 
a cow, weighing upwards of six stones. This cow was a large 
roomy animal, and had two or three times appeared as if affected 
with a species of gripes, but discharging copiously from the va¬ 
gina. She had been sadly gored by some other cattle, and had 
likewise had some heavy falls; in fact, she had met with 
hard treatment while she was in calf. She seemed to have gone 
her full time; but required more assistance to effect parturition 
than I was able to give her, although it was but a small calf. 
She died while I was preparing to cut the foetus away. I think, 
from previous symptoms, that the tumour, a polypus, had existed 
in the womb for a considerable time. The greatest part of it was 
composed of or resembled firmly coagulated blood ; its smaller 
part, and that part that lay in the vicinity of the bladder, was 
' seemingly more organized with the appearance of bloodvessels 
running through it in every direction, and of a more blue coloui 
than the broad end. It was very easily torn. 
A CASE OF STRANGLES SUCCEEDING TO 
SUPERPURGATION. 
By Mr. J. Cooper, U.S., Coleshill. 
On Wednesday the 13th of November I was requested by Mr. 
Ward, of Maxstoke, near this town, to send some medicine for 
a three-year-old draught horse. The animal, the owner said, 
had been the whole of the summer in very low condition, not 
appearing to thrive as the rest of the team had done, and which 
was attributed to worms (from his description, ascarides), many 
of them having been evacuated with the faeces. 
1 sent a scruple of calomel to be given at night, and four 
drachms of Barbadoes aloes for a morning ball, and directed that 
