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These are generally removed by giving two or three hornsful of 
oil previous to introducing the probang ; but not so when they get 
an accumulation of chaiF in the gullet; for it often happens that 
the whole length of the oesophagus is crammed with chaff; and 
when it is, with great difficulty, forced down with the probang, 
the rough particles of the chaff have done such irremediable mis¬ 
chief, that ulceration has taken place, and gangrene follows, and, 
eventually, death. 
My younger brother was called to a case last year, where the 
horse had broken loose, and eaten an enormous quantity of turnip 
seed. The whole length of the oesophagus was distended with it: 
it was jammed in so hard that neither oil nor the probang could 
make any impression upon it. He had recourse to the operation of 
OBSophagotomy, and removed part of the mass externally, forcing 
the residue down the oesophagus into the stomach. The horse 
was bled, and had laxatives and slop-food: the oesophagus, ho^^^- 
ever, mortified, and the animal died a week after the operation. 
PNEUMONIA IN A BULL. 
By Mr. J. Tindall, Goldsjne. 
The subject of the following case is a Teeswater bull, the pro¬ 
perty of Robert Innes, Esq. of Thrumster, and that gained the first 
prize of twenty-five sovereigns, at the Highland Society of Scot¬ 
land’s show of live stock, at Inverness, in October last. He was 
conveyed to Inverness by sea in an open boat, and after the exhi¬ 
bition travelled home to the farm of Crackay, Sutherlandshire, a 
distance of seventy miles, which he accomplished in nine days. 
On October 23d he was taken ill, about six o’clock a.m. and my 
attendance was requested. Being distant from this place ten miles, 
I did not see him until four P.M., when I found him labouring 
under the following symptoms:—Pulse 80, and very much op¬ 
pressed; respiration rapid and painful; quick motion of the flanks, 
and frequent looking towards them; cough short and quick; 
horns and ears cold; legs alternately hot and cold; quite unwilling 
to move, and taking no notice of any thing around him. During 
the day he lay down twice, but got up almost immediately: indeed, 
the combined symptoms plainly indicated that the substance of the 
lungs was the seat of the disease. 
I immediately set about bleeding him, but found both sides of 
his neck lacerated in attempts that had previously been made to 
effect this; but, owing to the thickness of the cuticle, and accumu¬ 
lation of fat on the neck, a few ounces were all that could be ab- 
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