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and is costive. Give two ounces of the castor oil mixture in his 
swill. 
\0th .—Much the same. Give him half an ounce of common 
salt daily in his swill. 
\lth .—He has been alternately better and worse since the last 
report. The castor oil mixture always does him good. He has 
had two or three doses—repeat it. 
\^th .—He is again rallying a little, and feeds better, but is very 
weak. Continue the mixture. 
^\st .—His apparent improvement was short lived. He now 
appears to be sinking fast. 
22tZ.—Died. He was in a strangely emaciated state. No in¬ 
flammation of the thoracic or abdominal cavities; but he seems, 
notwithstanding the repeated doses of the castor oil mixture, to 
have laboured under severe colic. The ileum was strictured in 
several places. The intestines contained a great quantity of worms 
(teretes), one of which was found in the immediate neighbourhood 
of every stricture. There were hydatids in the liver—one im¬ 
mense one adhering to the spine and left kidney, and two others 
floating in the abdomen, and supported by a long pedicle. One of 
them seemed to have taken to itself a peritoneal covering, which 
was highly inflamed. 
THE VETERINARIAN, NOVEMBER i, 1840. 
Nc quid falsi dicerc audeat, no (|uid veri non audeat.—CiCEiio. 
Our readers will perceive an advertisement on the cover of this 
number, in which a public meeting of the graduates of the vete¬ 
rinary profession is convened, on the day after Professor Sewell’s 
Introductory Lecture. We-have no doubt that every memorialist 
who can by possibility attend will be present, aiul respectfuHv 
but firmly urge the claims of the profession. 
The Editor very much regrets that a letter from Mr. Wood, al¬ 
though dated on the 22d, did not reach him until the 2()th, and 
when his arrangements with the printer were complete. It is on a 
subject which, although occasionally of fatal importance, has 
scarcely been touched upon in any of our pages—Abortion in (^)ws 
and other animals. 
The first case that was brought under his notice occurred on th(' 
6th of February, in an aged cow; and from that period to the; present 
no fewer than eleven cows, fifty ewes, and a valuable brood mare 
