ON THK SPAYING OF COWS. 
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ing, however, she was found dead. The post-inorteni examina¬ 
tion discovered a slow internal hemorrhage from the vessels of 
the ovaries, and yet there was not found more than four or five 
pounds of blood, coagulated and very black. I may add, that 
M. Miliquet has done me the justice to acknowledge that I took 
all possible pains to make him aware of the danger which would 
attend the performance of the operation during the oestrum of 
the animal. 
Case VIII.—On the 15th of May I spayed a cow that had 
had a calf three months before, whose milk was completely dry, 
and who was incessantly bulling. On the fourth or fifth day 
after the operation she appeared to have some degree of fever, 
but on the eleventh day she was quite well again. Three months 
afterwards she was sent to the butcher, and her beautiful condi¬ 
tion was the remark of many amateurs. 
Case IX.—On the ICth of July, in despite of the oppressive 
heat which prevailed, 1 operated on a cow belonging to M. Fran- 
cillon. She was about six years and a half old, and had had three 
calves. Soon after calving she had yielded twelve pots of milk, 
but at the time of operation she gave only ten. The wound 
healed by the first intention, but the cow had some slight degree 
of fever. Soon after the operation the scarcity of fodder com¬ 
pelled them to allow her only one-third of grass and two-thirds 
of dry food, but, in despite of this diminution of succulent food, 
she continued to give from nine to ten pots of milk during the 
summer and the autumn, until the time when all cows are usually 
put on dry food. Her milk diminished until the following spring, 
when it again began to increase. She yielded on the average 
seven pots and a half daily of milk during sixteen months; but 
about the close of that time siie was in good condition, still 
yielding six pots of milk every day. She was sold to the butcher 
on the 25th of March, 1836. 
Rec. de Med. Vet., Jail let 1838. 
[To be continued.] 
The Human Being and the Dog. 
[Extract of a Letter from Dr. Forster, of Bruxelles.] 
In taking a retrospect of the history of man from the remotf’st 
times, the collateral history of the dog casts thereon a mcdancholy 
shadow, which deadens its lustre, and shews us the ingratitude 
and vicious selfishness of our species in their worst and truest 
