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ON ABOUTION IN CATTLE. 
acute glanders, with all its characteristic symptoms and lesions; 
and, occasionally, enormous purulent collections in the articulations 
and the interstices of the muscles. 
The same results have been obtained by the injection of pus into 
the veins of a dog. 
This coincides with the facts to which M. Renault has so often 
directed the attention of the pupils, of the appearance of glanders, 
after long and abundant suppurations; and may, perhaps, induce us 
to adopt the opinion of Dr. Tessier, so well developed in his Me¬ 
moir on Phlebitis, that glanders may, perhaps, be hereafter acknow¬ 
ledged to be nothing more than one of the forms under which the 
purulent diathesis is developed. 
R'tc. de Mtd. Vet., Sep. 1840. 
ON ABORTION IN CATTLE. 
Bt/ Holder Wood, Rsq., Middleton, near Beverley. 
Sir,—I TAKE the liberty of transmitting to you an account of a 
very extraordinary loss which a friend of mine in this neighbour¬ 
hood has sustained among his stock, in consequence of a consi¬ 
derable number having either miscarried, or brought forth at such 
an early period of their gestation, that their offspring have either 
been dead at birth, or only survived a very short period afterwards. 
He has favoured me with the following statement, which I beg 
to submit to your notice, and would feel very much obliged for the 
favour of your opinion as to the probable cause of this destructive 
complaint; or, if you should consider it worthy of insertion in your 
widely circulated Journal, perhaps it might draw the attention of 
some of your numerous readers to this disease, which, from its im¬ 
portance and frequent occurrence, I think well deserving of con¬ 
sideration. 
The following is a brief history of cases already come under 
notice, amounting in number to eleven cows, fifty ewTS, and also 
a valuable brood mare, wdiich slipped her foal, and died a few^ days 
afteiAvards. The first case happened on the 6th of February, in 
an aged cow', about three nmnths from her full period : the foetus 
was immediately buried in a dunghill, and the cow removed 
another farm. The next cases occurred early in March, when two 
heifers, which had stood adjoining to the cow already mentioned, 
both calved. One of these being only one month from her full 
period, recovered quite well, and the calf lived; but in the other 
rase the placenta w'as not expelled for more than a wTek after¬ 
wards, and, since then, she has regularly come in season for the 
