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of communication was found between the vagina and the rectum, 
and this intestine terminated in a cul-de-sac. 
A violent and fatal disease appeared among cattle in the depart¬ 
ment of the Ain, during the month of November. M, Rainard, 
one of the professors of the college, travelled thither to enquire 
into the case. 
He found the animals poor, but with good appetite, the skin 
dry, and with some fever. After taking the slightest food, there 
was swelling of the left side, and permanent hardness over the 
region of the paunch, with constipation. M. Rainard conceived 
it to be a chronic-intestinal irritation, somewhat resembling that 
which medical men denominate the autumnal fever. 
The excessive heat of the summer, and the bad quality of the 
food, in 1826, had acted as predisposing causes. 
The occasional causes were, the feeding on too wet pasture, and 
the cold damp atmosphere which prevailed during the preceding 
spring. 
The curative means which he employed were,—confinement to 
the stable, spare diet, frictions, plenty of barley-water, rendered 
laxative by sulphate of magnesia, and, afterwards, to correct the 
debility consequent on the disease, bitters were given in mucila¬ 
ginous drinks. 
Not a single animal was lost after the adoption of this mode of 
treatment. 
jniscellaitca. 
WE insert the following Horse Cause. There is something in 
the report passing strange, and the veterinary public will claim 
an explanation from the parties concerned: until opportunity is 
given for that explanation, we are silent. 
NISBETT V . KENT, 
THIS was an action brought by the plaintiff, a gentlenian re¬ 
siding in Ireland, to recover compensation for the loss of a horse, 
in consequence of unskilful bleeding by the defendant, who is a 
farrier. 
Mr. C. F. Williams, in stating the case to the jury, said 
that the horse had been a very valuable one before it sustained 
the injury which occasioned its death. The general practice was 
to employ a fleam upon such occasions; but the defendant, either 
to show his skill, or from some other motive, thought proper to 
use a lancet. The gentlemen of the jury must see that, where a 
man resorted to experiments contrary to the safe and sanctioned 
practice of others in the same line, he did so at his own responsi¬ 
bility. The consequence of bleeding by the lancet instead of by 
