INFLAMMATION OF THE UDDER IN A COW. 
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disease is also prevalent among cows designed to be fattened, while 
the secretion of their milk is still abundant, and who are turned 
into the richest meadows, where their keepers neglect to milk them 
at certain intervals, in order that the flow of milk may be gradually 
suppressed. He has the same object, but more dangerously pur¬ 
sued, who ceases all at once to milk them. This folly and cruelty 
almost invariably produces the disease of which we are now treat- 
ing. 
M. Lecoq adds to this interesting Memoir a narrative of various 
cases, illustrating each division of his subject. We may at some 
future time recur to them, if it be the wish of our readers; but the 
cream of his doctrine has been here reported. 
Mtm. de la Soc. Vet. du Calvados III. p. 1. 
[I have here introduced this Essay on Mammitis, by M. Lecoq, as 
a valuable accompaniment to Mr. Gresswell’son “Inflammation of 
the Mammillary Glands,” and to the debate which ensued upon it 
as recorded in the present number of The Veterinarian. It is 
one of the most scientific and practical treatises which the 
periodical literature of our continental brethren contains. 
Perhaps I had another motive —I might with less appearance 
of intrusion notice some remarks which were made in that debate, 
on certain notions of mine respecting the subcutaneous abdominal 
vein in cattle. If I have been in error, I have this excuse 
to plead—and I am sure that, with regard to those to whom I am 
addressing myself, it will somewhat lighten the weight of the 
lash of criticism—that in the anatomical portion of the work, there 
were but two persons from whom I could derive the slightest as¬ 
sistance. They were great men—Bourgelat and Girard. The 
memory of the first I deeply revere, for our art owes much to 
him—the second, I trust, will long live to carry out the noble 
purposes which he contemplates. 
The first, I will not say shrunk from the subject under consi¬ 
deration—the peculiarity of the subcutaneous abdominal vein in 
cattle—but he was altogether silent about the matter; and 
the observations of the latter occupy not more than a fourth part 
of one of the pages of the work on “Cattle.” I may, therefore, 
surely be forgiven if, left to my own resources, I should occa¬ 
sionally err, and especially where there is so material a diflerence 
in the anatomical structure of the solipede and didactyle. 
I need not tell my valued friend. Professor Spooner, that 
there is far greater diflerence between certain portions of the 
venous system in these animals than the young student would 
form the slightest conception of. Compare the bulk of the su¬ 
perficial abdominal veins in the two. Dissect the subcutaneous 
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