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INFLAMMATION OF THE UDDER IN A COW TREATED 
WITH IODINE 5 ALSO, A CASE OF NEUROTOMY. 
By Mr. H. Christian, Canterbury. 
To the Editors of the Veterinarian . 
December 2, 1829. 
Gentlemen, — Should you consider the two following cases 
worthy of your insertion in your very valuable periodical, you 
are welcome to make what use of them you may deem fit: and 
I also take this opportunity of wishing hearty success to your 
work ; for it certainly is, without exception , one of the most valu¬ 
able of sources of information to the veterinarian that has ever 
issued from the press. I am, Gentlemen, your’s, &c., 
Henry Christian, V. S. 
In the middle of the last month I was called to see a covr, the 
property of a farmer in the neighbourhood of Canterbury. The 
symptoms were as follow:—quick pulse, and indurated udder 
and speens. It had been in this state for four months, and 
several remedies had been tried before I saw her. I ordered fo¬ 
mentations, bleeding, and purging ; but they were of no service. 
From two of the speens blood occasionally flowed, when attempt¬ 
ing to milk her. At the end of a week I altered my treatment, and 
applied camphorated mercurial ointment. This, also, w as of no be¬ 
nefit, and the udder and speens still continued in the same state 
as when I first saw her. Finding the foregoing remedies useless, 
I was determined to try the iodine; the proportions were 3ij of 
iodine to adeps 3iij ; at the end of a week the udder was smaller 
and softer than it had been for some time. I persevered in the 
treatment, rubbing in a drachm of the ointment twice a day, and 
at the end of a fortnight the udder and speens were as well as if 
they had never been affected. 
The next case is to illustrate the utility of an operation, which 
has been so unfavourably spoken of by those who are not aware 
of its utility:—I refer to Neurotomy. This was a gelding, the 
property of a gentleman well known in this part of the country 
as a huntsman. About two years since the horse fell suddenly 
lame of his near fore foot, for which he was bled, poulticed, phy¬ 
sicked, and turned out with one of Mr. Coleman’s patent frog- 
shoes. At the end of three months that foot measured three- 
fourths of an inch broader than before, and he w as to every ap- 
