ANALYSIS OF 1835. 
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We extract from the French a report, by M. Huzard, on the 
causes and treatment of phthisis among the dairy cows in Paris. 
It does mischief enough among us; but in that city its ravages 
are dreadful. If little could be said with regard to the curative 
treatment of it, the report abounds with many a useful hint as to 
its cause and prevention. 
Mr. Meyer contributes an excellent paper on Bronchitis in 
cattle. The number of young stock that fall victims to the irri¬ 
tation produced by worms in the bronchial tubes would scarcely 
be credited. Mr. Meyer is fortunate in his sketch of the pre¬ 
vailing causes, and the probable prevention of it : to this, in 
the present state of our art, our efforts must often be almost 
bounded. He has, however, been very successful in the treat¬ 
ment of bronchitis. The ao;riculturist and the veterinarian will 
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be much interested in this communication. 
- Some very curious statements of the early (Estrum and Im¬ 
pregnation of the short-horned heifer will be found. Are these 
peculiar to this breed, and characteristic of their general early 
maturity? Is it an excellence or a defect ? One of them was 
delivered of a dead calf when only thirteen months old : another 
died in calving at twelve months old. Messrs. Berry, Cart¬ 
wright, and Dick, deserve many thanks for their information on 
this singular point of cattle physiology. 
The case of superfetation in a cow, by Mr. Cowell, is another 
novel contribution to the physiology of these animals. 
The most important improvement, however, in the treatment of 
cattle, is the spaying of the milch cow before her flush of milk is 
gone off, and thus enabling her, for an indefinite period, and pro¬ 
bably until old age, constantly to yield her greatest quantity of this 
valuable fluid. The eventual gain to the dairyman must be im¬ 
mense ; and had no other fact been communicated than this—the 
possibility of perpetuating the milking powers of the cow—the last 
year ofTnEVETEiiiNARiAN would not have been spent in vain. 
The different symptoms and treatment of foot-rot and founder 
in the horse and in cattle, as delineated by Messrs. Pottie and 
Ball, are very singular; and a careful perusal of them will pre¬ 
serve the young practitioner from being deluded by analogical 
reasoning. 
