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A TUMOUR ROUND THE RECTUM OF A COW. 
Bi/ Mr. E. Barker, Stockesley. 
March 26, 1834.—I was desired to see a cow, constipated, 
swelled, and near her time of calving. She had evidently 
slight fever, but I could not refer her illness to the affection of 
any particular part. I gave her two ounces of Cape aloes, ten 
ounces of Glauber’s salts, and six ounces of sulphur. 
27tli .—Being no better, I bled her moderately—repeated the 
purgative, and prepared to administer an injection of salt and 
water with Reed’s patent syringe, but, previously backraking 
her, I felt a very considerable substance connected with the 
rectum. I told the owner that the evil was there, and that I 
had not much hope. 
28^A.—The medicine had not operated ; I therefore gave one 
pound of Glauber’s salt, two ounces of ginger, and eight ounces 
of sulphur, and once more repeated the enema. 
2dth .—Still obstinately constipated : she now moaned much, 
her eye was sunk, and her pulse weak. It being about a week 
to her time of calving, I determined to take the calf away, 
that we might save one life at least; but I had waited too 
long, and the calf died a few hours after it was extracted. 
30M.—The cow died. On examining her, I found that a 
large substance was grown round the rectum, two feet from the 
anus. Suppuration had commenced in it, and on cutting into 
it a yellow substance escaped. It weighed two stones, and the 
rectum ran through the middle of it. Every other part was 
healthy. 
A CASE OF FRACTURE OF THE BONE OF THE 
LEFT FORE-ARM OF A DRAUGHT HORSE. 
By M. Delaguette. 
An entire draught horse, aged, received a kick from a mare 
which fractured the left humerus. 
Being immediately sent for, I found the horse in the stable 
lying down on his left side, that is to say, on the injured limb. 
Having raised the horse and examined the limb, I found that 
the cubitus was fractured transversely from two-thirds of its 
length upwards, down to its carpian articular extremity, and 
that one portion was separated from the other. The obliquity 
of the fracture was from without, inwardsj so that the exterior 
