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toms before observed were added a remarkable torsion of the hind 
extremities, and an almost incessant spasm of them. The belly 
was slightly enlarged, and pressure on it evidently gave him pain. 
The pulse was small and wiry—the eye had lost its fearful expres¬ 
sion—the eyelids were swelled, and some purulent matter escaped 
from them. The conjunctival and buccal membranes were yellow, 
and the beast was much constipated. 
I now introduced into the dewlap a seton of black hellebore root, 
and ordered warm oily injections to be thrown up. On the morrow 
the animal was found dead. The seton had not acted in the 
slightest degree. 
On examining him after death, the subcutaneous cellular tissue 
was yellow, and, here and there, were infiltrations of the same 
character. There was not any thing peculiar in the appearance of 
the intestines, only that the mucous membrane was yellow, and 
that the rectum contained some hard excrement, almost resembling 
that of the horse. The liver alone was diseased. It seemed 
withered and dried, as if it had been exposed during several days 
to an ardent sun. It was easily torn, but its colour was not mate¬ 
rially changed. None of the other cavities or viscera presented 
the slightest lesion, except that the tissues generally were slightly 
tinged with yellow .—Le Zooiatre du Midi. 
The Treatment of a Wound in the Paunch. 
By M. Cruzel. 
We insert, simply to give our readers some idea of the French 
mode of proceeding in such cases, the history of a serious wound 
in the rumen of an ox. M. Cruzel was the surgeon consulted, 
and he stands at the head of his profession in cattle practice. An 
ox was lying on his right side in a meadow, ruminating. The well- 
filled paunch considerably projected from the left flank. Another 
ox gored him with his horn a little below the false ribs, and oppo¬ 
site to the articulation of the thigh. The skin was not broken 
through, but the epidermis was elevated through a space of seven 
or eight inches. A considerable swelling almost immediately ap¬ 
peared, which the cowherd bathed with salted water. 
M. Cruzel saw the animal in the morning. The left flank was 
slightly swelled—the ox was dull—he scarcely took any food, and 
rumination was very slowly performed. He seemed to feel a great 
deal of pain when the pellet passed from the paunch into the 
oesophagus, the abdominal muscles contracting, in order to assist 
the ascension of the ball. In my opinion, the paunch felt its full 
share of pain, for I regard the contraction of its muscular coat as the 
essential and principal agent in rumination. 
