CATARRHAL FEVER. 
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putrid matter, mixed with small fibrous particles, were also con¬ 
stantly running out. The fomentations were continued, with in¬ 
jections into the abscesses, of chloride of soda and tincture of 
myrrh and aloes ; sometimes pouring- very hot digestive ointment 
into the abscesses, and stimulating mixtures being applied ex¬ 
ternally as before. She now stands up a little at times, but lays 
no weight on that leg, except when forced to walk, when she will 
let the hock rest upon the ground, like a rabbit. 
This treatment was continued till the middle of March ; the 
abscesses gradually cleaning and healing, and the cow giving 
nearly her full quantity of milk most of the time. At that pe¬ 
riod the abscesses w x ere healed, but she had no strength in the 
leg above the hock, but still w x ent like a rabbit on that leg, with 
the hock on the ground. I now blistered the thigh repeatedly, 
which had a good effect in causing the muscles to unite again, 
and stimulating the parts to action. She w x as turned out to 
grass in April, where she recovered nearly the full tone of the 
part in about a month. When she was first turned out to grass, 
that quarter was not half the size of the other, but it soon got 
quite as plump as the other: she is now well, and milking as 
abundantly as she ever did. 
I have met with many cases of this kind in my practice, most 
of which I treated on a more decidedly depletive system, with 
cooling embrocations and emollient applications to the local 
swelling of the thigh, none of which proved successful; but 
since I commenced the above plan, I have not once failed of 
making a complete cure. I now go to a case of this kind with 
perfect confidence, for I have tried this mode of treatment in 
more than thirty cases, without witnessing one failure. 
ON CATARRHAL FEVER. 
By the same. 
In “ The Veterinarian” of April last, Mr. W. Percivall 
gives an account of epidemic catarrhal fever being prevalent 
among the horses under his care during the last spring. Per¬ 
haps you will give me leave to state what has come under my ob¬ 
servation : sixty horses affected with a febrile catarrh, developed 
with exactly the same symptoms, have come under my care since 
the last spring, 1832. In twenty of them I followed, as nearly 
as possible, Mr. Percivalfs method, giving aloetic purges, Sec.; 
but they did not recover so soon nor so perfectly as I thought 
