578 DISEASE OF THE LUNGS AND LIVER IN A CALF. 
[We regard these as exceedingly valuable papers, and cordially 
thank Messrs. Gutteridge and Stevens for them. We rejoice 
that one and another of our veterinary surgeons is shewing 
the agriculturist what important service he can render in the 
medical treatment of this hitherto neglected animal. It will be 
for the agriculturist to patronize such men, and to assist in the 
noble effort now making to render the present, or some other 
school, an institution in which the diseases of every domesticated 
animal, and the remedies of those diseases, shall be thoroughly 
investigated.—Y.] 
A CASE OF DISEASE OF THE LUNGS AND LIVER 
IN A CALF. 
By John Tombs, Esq., V.S., Per shore. 
A THOROUGH-BRED short-horned bull-calf, seven months old, 
had been ill six weeks or two months. He belonged to a cele¬ 
brated agriculturist in this neighbourhood. I saw him the first 
time on October the 2d, 1839. His pulse was 60—he sucked but 
little—ate nothing—was very much tucked up—breathed quick 
and short, and was continually husking. When he was sucking 
he coughed almost to suffocation—had a continual discharge from 
the nostrils—the fseces extremely soft, and of a light brown colour. 
He had a scrofulous tumour on each jaw, exceedingly hard. 
I considered it a hopeless case, as the disease had been existing 
during a considerable time; and, also, the emaciated appearance 
of the calf, and the deep husking, indicating a firmly seated disease 
of the bronchial tubes and the lungs, and, the whity-brown faeces, a 
fearful affection of the liver. He wished me, however, to trv what 
I could do with the case. 
For a few days I exhibited digitalis and febrifuge medicine, 
with no beneficial effect. For three weeks afterwards I tried 
iodine, with gentian and ginger, but with the like result; and then, 
as the disease was rapidly progressing, I succeeded in prevailing 
on the owner to have him destroyed. 
The following were the appearances after death.—The lining mem¬ 
brane of the trachea and bronchial tubes were inflamed and covered 
with mucus. There were no worms in any of the air-passages or 
cells of the lungs, although many calves that had the hoose in the 
preceding autumn had prodigious quantities in the trachea and 
bronchial tubes. The anterior portions of the lungs were diseased, 
and darkened in colour, and, when cut into, were one mass of puru¬ 
lent matter. The posterior portion of the lungs were healthy, with 
