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Extensive Chronic Disease of the Heart. 
About a year and a half ago I was sent for to a cow, belonging 
to Mrs. Swift, of Aldridge, about four miles from hence. I found 
her down, in exceedingly great pain, with a most alarmingly quick 
and strong pulse, a wild and haggard eye, and the head turned 
back on the side, indicating pain in the region of the abdomen. 
I bled her, and the blood flowed copiously : after I had abstracted 
as much as I judged proper, and the pressure was removed from 
the low'er part of the vein, I had the greatest possible difficulty 
in stopning the bleeding, for it was forced out in jets, several 
feet distant from the animal, and she died in less than five mi¬ 
nutes. 
I am sorry that I had not the opportunity of minutely exaimin- 
ing her, as I am persuaded that it w'as a case accompanied by 
indigestion, but the heart was saved for me. It was very large, 
and the whole of the outer walls presented the appearance of a 
honeycomb; the holes were more than an inch deep ; such a 
case of chronic disease of that viscus as I have never seen any 
thing else at all to compare with : and yet this cow was in as 
good condition as you could possibly desire to see a store beast; 
and, they informed me, had milked extremely well, and had 
shewn no symptoms of illness that they could perceive, until 
a short previously to my being sent for. 
The little necessity for exertion that there is at times in these 
cases, adds materially to the power of the digestive organs, as 
antagonists to disease ; and it is truly astonishing how the pur¬ 
poses of life are carried on under such circumstances as these in 
consideration : and yet, let the digestive organs themselves be 
once sensibly diseased whilst such affections exist in other parts, 
and it is then equally astonishing with what a rapid flow the two 
conjointly hurry life to its last ebb. The impression on my mind 
at the time this case occurred was, that the functions of the heart, 
which had gradually been accommodating themselves to the al¬ 
teration in its structure, had not been able to stand against the 
rapid derangement such a case of acute indigestion had pro¬ 
duced, and that death was the consequence. 
EXTIRPATION OF THE CONCH OF THE EAR OF 
THE HORSE. 
Jh/ P ROFEssoR Delafond, Alfort. 
Caries of the cartilage, forming the principal part of the 
external ear of domesticated animals, is often a very obstinate 
disease, requiring the most assiduous care, and, after all, yield- 
