ON HOOSE IN CATTLE. 
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ner, naturalized to these mossy districts, are exempt from the 
disease; on the contrary, they are, like those located in other 
neighbourhoods, equally subjected to its ravages, and from a si¬ 
milarity of causes. 
The symptoms being so well known, and the disease manifesting 
itself in the same manner in every district, I shall not occupy your 
time longer by describing them, but proceed to the treatm.ent I have 
found most effectual. If constipation has ensued previous to my 
being called in, and there is any excitement, I bleed according to 
the age, strength, &c., and confine my patient to an open shed or 
cool cow-house, strictly debarring all food of a solid nature, but 
allowing plenty of whey porridge, oatmeal gruel, &c. as diluents. 
If the animal will not take these things in sufficient quantities, I 
have them horned into her, and, as a purgative, give the follow¬ 
ing—not for any supposed specific effect, but as a more certain 
purgative than salts alone—my motive also in giving the carbonate 
of ammonia being solely to ensure the action of the physic, which 
it either does, or I fancy that it does—H Magnes. sulph. Jvi vel 
viii, sulph. sublim. Jiv vel vi, pulv. zingib. Jss, ammon. carb. 
5i. Mix, and form a powder, to be administered as the case may 
require. Enemas of warm water or gruel should also be admi¬ 
nistered. I have seen hydrarg. sub. 9j given in a pint of yeast 
produce purgation, when other remedies have failed, and saved 
life where the case was apparently hopeless. Purgation being 
fairly established, the practitioner must exercise his own discretion 
in the farther administration of medicine, although I must confess 
that I am in favour of mild stimulants, or, as they are generally 
called, nourishing drinks. 
ON HOOSE IN CATTLE. 
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By Mr. T. Mayer, Sen., Newcastle-under-Line. 
I OBSERVE that a most egregious blunder has been made in the 
heading of my paper contained in your Journal for the last month, 
and I shall feel obliged by you correcting it in your next number. 
Instead of treating on Hoove in Cattle, it should have been on 
[[nose, the former being a totally different affection*. 
The Editor has kindly called my attention, in a note of his to 
the above paper, that Cairq)er fully meaned what he said when he 
stated, first, “ I traced them down the windpipe, and found my- 
* Wo rcfrrct the typograpliical error, and deserve tlie castigation which 
Mr. Mayer has given us ; but our friend will recollect the circumstances under 
which that number was published, and try to forgive us.—Y,] 
