676 ON THE HOOSE IN CATTLE. 
Six o’clock evening, the tetanic symptoms still increasing, and 
continued so till the 22d, about eight o’clock, when it died. 
Post-mortem examination .—I found the umbilical arteries full 
of pus, and almost approaching to gangrene, quite up to their 
origin viz., the aorta : the veins did not appear affected, nor yet 
the urachus; all other organs quite healthy, with the exception 
of a slight distention of the vessels of the brain and medulla spi¬ 
nalis. 
ON THE HOOSE IN CATTLE. 
By the same . 
[Our friend, and the valued pupil of one of us, has done us the 
honour, and one that we court, of asking our advice respecting the 
treatment of this sadly fatal disease. We will first lay his ac¬ 
count of the symptoms before our professional brethren, request¬ 
ing some one of more extensive practice to take up the subject; 
and if we are disappointed in this, we will, in our next number, 
say all that we know about it, but that neither much, nor, we 
fear, satisfactory.—E d.] 
Symptoms .—Generally preceded by an almost constant husky 
cough. The respiration much quickened and laborious ; pulse 
quick but small; ears, nose, and legs, cold ; hair staring ; the 
bowels generally constipated, if not, very much the converse , in 
which state the beast will continue for some days without any 
alteration of symptoms, and then die. 
Treatment which I have adopted with most success.—When 
the bowels are in a state of constipation, give Epsom salts 3ii, pow¬ 
dered ginger \ drachm, and repeated in 3i doses every six hours, 
until purging is produced : if they can bear it, bleed from 3viii to 
Ihi. Introduce setons into the throat and dewlap ; and some have 
blistered, but with no manifest advantage. I have then given 
them a ball daily, composed of nitratepotassa 3 fs., emet.tart.gr. v., 
digitalis, gr. v., which, in some, I have perceived to have great 
influence in diminishing the febrile action, but the disease some¬ 
times, after you would think the beasts are mending, returns 
again, and takes them off in a short time. 
Post-mortem appearances .—The principal seats of the disease 
appear to be the larynx, trachea, and bronchiae, but the latter 
more especially; and where the subject has been a'strong one, 
and the disease existed long, the substance of the lung has 
been affected. The trachea is almost filled with a slimy mucous 
