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PLEUR0-PNEUM0NIA IN CATTLE. 
of the cantharides liniment were made over the setons, but 
it produced little action. The vital force seemed concen¬ 
trated within the body, and the skin had become cold and 
insensible to the stimulating effects of the blister, and, in¬ 
deed, even the setons were very tardy in their operation, and 
hardly effectual. 
As this communication must necessarily be lengthy, I will 
be as brief as possible as to treatment. Suffice it to say, 
that it consisted of tonics and stimulants, given for about 
three weeks, the bowels all this time remaining healthy, 
when diarrhoea set in, which was succeeded by rapid prostra¬ 
tion. I now ordered one pint of wheat flour and one of oat¬ 
meal, made into gruel, one half to be given that evening, and 
the remainder the following morning. From this time she 
was disposed to constipation, and required aperient medicines 
once in three or four days at the longest. A quart of infu¬ 
sion of thoroughwort always gave relief. 
She continued in this way, occasionally rallying for a few 
hours, only to sink lower in the scale of health, until January 
9th, a.m., when she died, after five and a half weeks’ illness, 
with but little variation of symptoms from the first to the 
last. Nor did she during all this time eat a sufficiency of 
food to have supported her one day when in health. 
As I had informed my employer at first that this animal 
was suffering from latent disease of the lungs (as the sequel 
will show), he was desirous that I should demonstrate my 
diagnosis by an autopsy of the animal. 
Again accompanied by Dr. Saunders, I w T ent to Belmont, 
where we met Dr. Thayer. 
Post-morte?n examination , seven hours after death.—The 
stomach and intestines were healthy, and they contained very 
little ingesta; the kidneys and bladder were also healthy, 
the latter was empty. The liver was pale and of a yellow 
hue, enlarged in size, flaccid, and appeared to contain a 
quantity of a semi-fluid or grayish matter. On opening the 
thorax the lungs were found to present a mass of disease, 
and tlie anterior and inferior portions of the right lung were 
so firmly adherent to the pleura costalis that it required a 
stout man to break down the adhesions. These organs, when 
placed upon the ground, were viewed with astonishment for 
their bulk, and were supposed by those present to weigh at 
least sixty pounds. Their anterior portions were solid, with 
tuberculous deposit, quite hard to cut. In other parts a 
similar condition was observable, but not to so great an 
extent. They contained no blood, when cut scarcely stain¬ 
ing the knife. The pleura costalis was healthy, except the 
