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visible mucous surfaces were slightly injected, and a morbid 
sensibility of the spinal column existed about its connexion 
with the diaphragm. She coughed occasionally; laydown 
frequently, and rose up without any unusual effort. On the 
left side percussion was very dull, and also on the right, 
below the median line, above which a vibratory sound w T as 
most distinctly heard. The left lung was evidently consoli¬ 
dated, and the right partially so. 
Treatment .—The bowels having responded to the medicine 
before given, I plugged the dewlap on both sides with the 
Thytolacca decandra , and gave tonic and stimulating agents 
combined, under the conviction that, as torpidity and de¬ 
bility seemed to be the leading features in the disease, this 
mode of treatment was fairly indicated. I ordered her to be 
kept warm, to have warm drinks given her, and a little food 
of any kind that she would eat. 
It being now a fine day, and Drs. Saunders and Thayer 
present, we destroyed the Devon heifer, which, upon exami¬ 
nation, showed no trace of the acute disease for which she 
had so recently been treated. The abdominal viscera were 
healthy, except the liver, upon the anterior superior surface of 
which was a small abscess, about the size of an English 
walnut. The heart was healthy; the lungs, also, with the 
exception of a small portion of the left lung, about five 
inches in length and four in breadth, which at the extreme 
inferior margin was consolidated, and, strange to say, it had 
the appearance of a band having been placed around it be¬ 
tween the healthy and the diseased parts. It was hanging 
pendulous, as if about to slough away from the healthy por¬ 
tions. She had exhibited no symptoms of disease for a week 
previous to her being destroyed. She ruminated, ate, and 
drank "well, took her rest regular, the excretions were 
healthy and spirits good, and, to all appearance, she had 
fully recovered from the recent attack of the disease, being 
killed only on account of the cancer in the orbit. 
Dec. 3d.—I visited the mammoth cow. Symptoms the same 
as yesterday. She drinks a little gruel, but eats nothing; 
lies down and rises without difficulty. The sighing, grunt¬ 
ing, and twitching of the muscles of the chest, still continue. 
The countenance is expressive of extensive disease; surface 
of the body cold; extremities, legs, ears, and horns, warm 
and cold at intervals. 
Treatment .—I inserted two setons, of about ten inches in 
length, of Professor Morton’s medicated tape, on each side, 
which were dressed occasionally, and renewed when needed ; 
and at the urgent request of Dr. Thayer, several applications 
