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ON POUCHED HEART: 
A DISEASE INCIDENT TO CATTLE DURING THE PROCESS OF FATTENING. 
“ Confestim apparebit.” 
[From the Farmer’s Magazine for June, August, October.] 
[Continued from page 53.] 
“ It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your 
dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood .”—Leviticus c. iii, v. 17. 
There is wisdom in this statute, for an animal laden with fat 
can no more be said to be healthy than another suffering from 
typhus, pleuro pneumonia, or any other acute or epidemic dis¬ 
ease. It would be almost as reasonable to attempt to keep it 
healthy by giving it potass, phosphorus, or lime, as by feeding 
it with food incongruous to its nature. To take Muller’s for¬ 
mula, the per centage composition of the three flesh-forming 
compounds are— 
Albumen Fibrine Caseine. 
Carbon.55 46 54*45 54*66 
Hydrogen. 7*20 707 7*15 
Nitrogen.1608 17*2L 15*72 
Oxygen.18 27 19*35 21*55 
Sulphur.2 16 1*59 *92 
Phosphorus. *43 *33 — 
100*00 100*00 100*00 
“ Si vel minimum sanguinis vel nimis parum in corpore 
fuerit vel aliena ejus partium proportio facta fuerit vitium de- 
mum erit non leve et saepe multorum et gravium morborum 
causa.”— Gregory , p. 512. 
To suppose this strictly correct, therefore, any deviation in 
the proportions of the constituents of these compounds, however 
small, is to be viewed as produced from a morbific condition of 
the vital fluid, and so far is incompatible with a healthy state of 
the solids derived from the blood. Much more so is the blood 
to be considered when any abnormal matter is present, or 
whether either such deviations may produce an excess or a 
deficiency of albumen or of fibrine, or of caseine, and, as a con¬ 
sequence, whether the volume of blood contains an excess or a 
deficiency of corpuscules, their weight, figure, &c. 
A series of useful and interesting experiments might be in¬ 
stituted to ascertain the quantity of fibrine present in the 
healthy and diseased conditions of the blood. The salts of lead 
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