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CHOKING IN CATTLE. 
course of three weeks. A neighbour of his had four attacked with 
it, one a very valuable bull calf; but, unfortunately, we were not 
called in till the day it died. Suspecting what was the cause, I 
made a post-mortem examination, and found the bronchi full of 
these worms: one of the surviving three was very much affected, 
hoosing continually, very much reduced in condition, and its breath¬ 
ing particularly affected; the other two had it very slightly. By 
the administration of lime-water and salt and water, they were all 
three soon restored. Another farmer had between twenty and 
thirty affected with hoove. The person he called in commenced by 
bleeding and purging, which soon put half a dozen hors de combat: 
he then adopted the administration of lime-water, which saved the 
remainder. The Right Hon. Earl Talbot had a valuable bull calf 
attacked with it. We recommended the above simple means, and 
it was well in a fortnight. I therefore think we may consider 
lime-water and salt and water alternately as a complete specific in 
this destructive malady; but still I shall feel particularly obliged 
by either veterinary surgeons or the agricultural portion of our 
community communicating, through the means of your valuable 
Journal, the results of their practical test of its efficiency or inef- 
CHOKING IN CATTLE, AND ON THE USE AND 
ABUSE OF THE FLEXIBLE TUBE. 
By Mr. Read, V.S., Crediton, Devon. 
A simple instrument is a dangerous weapon in unskilful hands. 
Choking is of very frequent occurrence amongst cattle, when 
bulbous roots, such as turnips, mangel wurzel, or beet, form the 
chief food for store and stall-fed beasts. The season being nearly 
over with us, I will endeavour, from multifarious cases, to explain 
the practical results, as to the best method I have, from many years’ 
observation, found in using the probang. The symptoms, the me¬ 
chanical disorders, the means of relief, and the injurious effects, of 
injudicious treatment will form the subject of this paper. Now, 
perhaps, none of my veterinary brethren who are town practitioners 
are aware of the immense loss of cattle sustained by farmers from 
this mechanical obstruction of the throat; too hasty or too rash a 
use of the tube is the frequent cause of serious calamities. This 
year I have known no less than four beasts killed, not by the ob¬ 
structing body, but from the improper use of the instrument, either 
by the farmer himself, or by the empiric he employed. Thinking 
