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A CASR OF ESOPHAGOTOMY IN A COW. 
racter of unhealthy ulceration ; it may then be necessary to have 
recourse to nitric acid, corrosive sublimate, chloride of antimony, 
or, best of all, the hot iron. 
Wholesome and plentiful food is of the first consequence in 
the treatment of this disease; the dressings should be well at¬ 
tended to ; the horse w'armly clothed, and gentle exercise occa¬ 
sionally resorted to when the weather is dry. 
In the first regiment of artillery, to which I belong, and the 
effective force of which consists of 1100 horses, there are at 
least 300 that have been cured by the methods that I have 
described. 
I do not speak of the farcy which is always accompanied by 
acute glanders: that affection appears to be a disease of the 
blood, and has for its cause the absorption of animal poisons, 
or bad and innutritions food, too long continued. 
This malady is 'always fatal, and the duty of the veterinary 
surgeon is confined to its prevention. 
Journaly Jan. 1835. 
A CASE OF ESOPHAGOTOMY IN A COW. 
By Mr. W. C. Vine, V.S., Horsehridge. 
On the 21st of January last, I was called upon to attend an 
Alderney cow, the property of a gentleman in this parish, which 
was expected to calve every hour, having gone nearly a fortnight 
over her time. I found her with a portion of Swedish turnip 
lodged in the esophagus. I immediately applied the probang, 
and persevered with it until I found it impossible to relieve her 
in that way. I informed the owner that I dreaded the conse¬ 
quence of using farther violence, and obtained his leave to at¬ 
tempt the removal of it by making an incision into the gullet. 
I then cast her on the right side, and cut down upon the 
impacted body, about five inches in length, and extracted a large 
portion of turnip, which had not been chewed at all by the cow 
before she attempted to swallow it, it having been frozen very 
hard. I then washed the wound clean with warm water, and 
sewed it up, after which the cow was allowed to get on her feet: 
she then drank some warm gruel which was prepared for her, 
and we left her in a loose stall for the night, during which time 
she brought forth a live calf. 
In the morning the cow continued to take mashes, and gruel 
to drink; and we gave her cabbage leaves and scalded hay to eat 
from the hand, in order to prevent her taking a large quantity at 
a time, as she was very greedy. 
