250^ ERYSIPELAS IN COWS, TERMINATING IN GANGRENE. 
to a pigeon’s egg, were discovered. On laying the tumours open 
with the scalpel, I found them to be aneurismal. The first and 
largest was filled with numerous layers of clotted blood, and a 
quantity of a curdy-looking substance, apparently some preparation 
of lime. These being removed, the coats of the artery were found 
completely destroyed, and the walls of the sac formed of the lining 
membrane of the abdomen thickened by inflammatory action: in 
the three smaller tumours the arterial coats were all perfect, with the 
exception of the dilatation. The aorta, for a few inches before and 
behind the situation of the tumour, was studded over with patches 
of osseous substances, about the size of a sixpence; but all the 
other arterial trunks examined were perfectly normal, as well as 
the heart and its valvular apparatus. The liver was inflamed, and 
easily broken down, which, in my opinion, was the cause of the 
colicky symptoms. All the other viscera were in a healthy state. 
ERYSIPELAS IN COWS, TERMINATING IN 
GANGRENE. 
By Mr. F. King, sen., V.S., Stanmore. 
In one of the numbers of The VETERINARIAN, I think the 
latter end of the year 1838, in a communication from a French 
veterinary surgeon on cow pathology, is an account of a disorder 
which, from some of its described characters, exhibited so strong 
an analogy to a very uncommon case which I attended and well 
remembered, that I was induced to turn to my memoranda of 
notabilia, and give you the history, more from its curiosity than 
any hope of practical utility. 
I was sent for to the brewery at Rickmansworth, belonging to 
Mr. Salter (since deceased), the messenger stating that one milch 
cow had died the preceding day, and that three other cows were 
seized with the same disease. 
On my arrival, I was shewn three cows strapped to a crib, in the 
usual manner, under a well-littered open shed. One or two of 
them were eating some hay. They appeared healthily full in their 
bodies, with sleek coats; and as I entered the shed from behind, 
taking perhaps a too hasty view, I inquired, “ Are these the 
animals I am come to see ] ” A veterinary friend, Mr. Sibley, 
who had attended the first case, was present; and he replied, 
“ Wait a bit, and you will soon see.” The complaint quickly 
became manifest, and seemed to consist in an excessive itching of 
the skin immediately surrounding the throat, and extending up- 
