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SINGULAR DISEASE IN A WILD BOAR. 
abdominal vein, especially in cows yielding milk, and trace the 
anastomosing branch which it gives to the suhsternal vein. 
Follow, again, the singular and numerous communications be¬ 
tween the vense cavse anterior and posterior—far more numerous 
and far more considerable than are ever found in the 
monodactyle, offering to the blood large and multiplied routes 
by means of which it may arrive at the heart; and each of 
these routes, probably, connected with considerations that will 
hereafter be found useful in practice. Neither Girard nor his 
disciple are “in error” here. 
What a noble field has our anatomical Professor before him! 
The abdominal veins of the ruminant will afford him matter for 
many hitherto untrodden and highly useful excursions. Where 
there has been yet no path to guide the wanderer, a casual 
deviation will not be rudely censured. By degrees every diffi¬ 
culty will be surmounted—the light of truth will shine more and 
more brightly on his path—the friends of his early career will 
joy in his triumph, and they who were disposed to cavil will be 
shamed into better feelings. 
To one charge the author of the work on “ Cattle” pleads guilty. 
He recommends, when treating both of milk fever and of garget, 
that the teats should be frequently drawn, and the discharge of 
milk solicited; but he should have expressed himself more guard¬ 
edly. When the milking gives no great pain to the animal, there 
can be no doubt that as much as possible of the milk should be 
drawn; but when the patient shews that she suffers much pain 
under the operation, and especially if purulent bloody matter is 
expressed, or the teats, or some particular one, is very much 
swelled—there is either inflammation or ulceration of the mucous 
membrane lining the milk tube, and which the manipulation 
of milking would increase.] Y. 
SINGULAR DISEASE IN A WILD BOAR. 
By Mr. W. You ATT. 
Jan. 23, 1839.—This animal was mangy at the beginning of 
summer, and it was only after numerous dressings that the disease 
seemed to yield. It is now getting as bad as ever. Dress with 
the common sulphur ointment, with one-twelfth part of strong mer¬ 
curial ointment, and give half an ounce of Epsom salts. Repeat 
the salts occasionally. 
Feb. ^th. —The mange has in a great measure yielded to the 
ointment, but the animal is wasting away. He does not feed well, 
