EXCISION OF A PORTION OF A COw’s BAG. 419 
I now expressed a wish to the owner to detach the whole 
quarter with my knife; to which he readily consented, telling 
me the case was in my hands, and I might do as I pleased with 
it; but that he anticipated a fatal result. After washing well 
with a solution of chloride, I detached first all the decomposed 
portion, weighing between four and five pounds, by which means 
I could see °the course of the vessels much better, leaving the 
remaining portion till the next day, and ordering the medicine 
to be continued. 
lQth .—After securing, by ligature, the principal vessels, I 
excised the whole of the quarter (saving just the teat): very 
little hemorrhage ensued. I ordered a bottle of solution of alum 
and tr. myrrh comp, equal parts, to dress it with night and morn¬ 
ing, after milking; leaving a large vacuum, which certainly, to 
one unacquainted with the reproductive powers of our patient, 
looked as if it never would unite again. The owner jocosely 
observed to me, that I had made a hole, but he thought I should 
find the most trouble in filling it up again. 
18th .—The wound looks healthy. Dress as before. Gives a 
gallon of milk per day. Appetite better. 
20th .—Going on well—discontinue gruel—turn out during 
the day. 
24th .—Wound healing fast—appetite good—milk increasing. 
Continue dressing as before. 
From this till the middle of May she kept improving, when I 
had the pleasure of seeing the wound quite closed, my patient 
quite fresh, and giving ten quarts of milk at a meal, which was 
as much as she had ever given before, and my employer not a 
little pleased with the result. 
CATARACT. 
Messrs. Editors, 
Reading in your last periodical (July), the cases communi¬ 
cated by Mr. Clay, Shrewsbury, upon cataract forming without 
any previous inflammation, I cannot, in justice to him and 
the profession at large, refrain from publicly confirming his opi¬ 
nion upon that point, so far as my little experience goes. The 
cases which I shall relate, and those far more valuable communi¬ 
cated by other practitioners, will shew that veterinary surgeons 
should be very cautious what they assert when called into court 
to give their professional opinion. 
CASE I. 
A valuable six years old hack mare, when first broken, about 
two years ago, was carefully examined by me, and pronounced 
perfectly sound. I have attended the same stables three times 
