RESPIRATORY PASSAGES OF A COW. 487 
She had a calf this season; but that has made no alteration in 
her symptoms. She is sometimes a little easier when her stomach 
is empty. Her breathing may be heard at some distance from 
the byre door ; she is in fair condition, but has fallen off a little 
lately. Mr. R— and Mr. L— have seen her as well as myself, 
and we are all at fault; and I will therefore feel obliged by your 
advice, as she is a favourite cow.” This appears to be a case 
of tumour, or, what in Scotland is termed a dyer, in or about 
the larynx, and might possibly be removed by the hand intro¬ 
duced through the mouth, as we once saw in a case something 
of this kind. There is a preparation at the St. Pancras Veteri¬ 
nary College of this sort. The tumour is anterior to the epi¬ 
glottis, and had it been known might, perhaps, have been drawn 
out; but the animal broke his back while he was cast, during the 
operation of tracheotomy, or rather while passing a probang up¬ 
wards from the opening which had been made in the trachea ; 
and by this means the tumour and its situation was afterwards 
discovered. 
D. 
We are sometimes called upon to discharge the unpleasant 
duty of arbiters in horse matters. There is a business and an 
un-business-like way of doing all things; and a man’s reputation 
for general talent, and for that talent brought to bear upon his 
own profession, may be much affected by the manner in which 
he sets to work here. 
We have been so fortunate as to obtain the copy of an arbi¬ 
tration with regard to the health and usage of a horse. The 
arbiter enters fully into the case—he labours it more, perhaps, 
than was necessary ; but he shews a great deal of good sense, 
and a perfect knowledge of what he was about. If his arbitration 
does not serve as a perfect guide to us in somewhat similar 
cases, it may afford us some useful hints. We suppress the 
names of the parties, although some of them richly deserve 
exposure ; and they have exposed themselves wherever the cir¬ 
cumstances were known: they were brutes in human shape. 
