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and the animals are lame through the whole course of the disease. 
The sufferings which they experience seem to be very great; they 
lose flesh and cannot work, and when the malady is.at its height 
cannot be employed for the slightest work. They never lie 
down on the side of the diseased limb, and cannot rise without 
great pain. I have never seen both knees affected at once. 
Eight cows were attacked at once on two farms; and soon 
afterwards two other cows on a third farm became diseased. I 
made use of all the remedies which I have before mentioned, but 
neither setons, firing, nor frictions had any beneficial effect. 
Wearied, as also were the owners, .by a long and fruitless treat¬ 
ment, I gave it up; and after having ceased to apply any 
remedies for eight months, I attempted the following operation on 
one animal:—Having confined her in a standing position, I opened 
the tumour from top to bottom with a bistoury; I then took out 
a yellowish fatty matter, which adhered to the skin, and which 
constituted the tumour. I afterwards cauterized the wdiole of 
the interior of the wound. This operation being finished, I 
filled the wmund with dry tow, and, bringing the edges of the 
wound together, confined them with a bandage. On the third 
day I removed the first dressing; the tow was moistened with 
an ichorous yellow matter, but which afterwards, by degrees, 
assumed a healthy character. I dressed it frequently, and on the 
thirty-sixth day the wound was perfectly healed ; but the hair did 
not for a long time grow on the cauterized part: the lameness 
soon disappeared. 
Encouraged by this success, T operated in the same way on all 
my other patients in the course of a week. Five were cured, and 
no lameness remained from the thirty-fifth to the forty-fifth day. 
Two remained lame, in consequence of an anchylosis of the joint. 
The others resisted all curative means. The wound became 
deeply ulcerated, and the animals were sold for what they would 
fetch. Recueil de Med. Vet. 
Analysis of the Blood of the Horse. 
By Dr. Clanny. 
Sir,—I B EG to lay before your readers, the result of my analysis 
of the blood of a young hunter, from which a small quantity 
of that fluid was taken on account of a slight cough. I need 
scarcely remark, that different portions (as in my method of 
analysis of human blood) were taken, and investigated as former¬ 
ly explained in the pages of your valuable Journal. This analy¬ 
sis was performed upon the 28th of last July. Were the blood 
