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PEMPHIGUS IN THE OX. 
By Isaac Seaman, Veterinary Surgeon, Saffron Walden. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian 
Sir,—I AM induced to request that you will insert the inclosed 
case in the pages of your valuable publication. By so doing 
you will oblige. 
The disease to which I am about to allude, seems of rare occur¬ 
rence, having neither read nor seen any thing similar; it very 
much resembles pemphigus in the human being. 
Case. March 14 tli, 3 P.M. 1852.—I was requested to attend 
a short-horned bullock, aged three years, the property of C. Nash, 
Esq., Hinton Hall. I found him suffering severe inflammation 
in various parts of the skin. His food had been suddenly 
changed from hay and straw to beet root. Epsom salts Ibj, 
nit. potass. §ij, pulv. zingiberis 5j, pulv. gent, radic. §j M. 
had been given him, six hours previously to my seeing him: 
the time being when the bullock was noticed ill. 
SYMPTOMS. —Breathing hurried and sonorous, and a slight 
cough. There was universal shivering. Skin of neck, shoulders, 
arms, loins and haunches very much swelled and inflamed. 
Effusion of serum had taken place, elevating the cuticle in 
places, forming bullae or bladders, varying in size from a small 
nut to a fowl’s egg. In other places, a thin transparent fluid was 
freely dropping from the hair, and in some places in quite a 
stream. The ears were drooping and moist, and their tempe¬ 
rature much elevated ; horns similarly heated, and purple in 
colour; legs and mouth hot; tongue considerably enlarged. 
Mucous membrane of eyes highly injected, and tinged with 
yellow. The saliva was flowing from the mouth. Pulse SO, 
and almost imperceptible at the jaw; heart’s action irregular; 
back arched upwards, and pain evinced on pressure; urine 
scanty and dark coloured ; faeces liquid, and pale straw-coloured. 
The beast could but with difficulty be moved. 
TREATMENT. —Hyd. chlor. 3j, hyoscymi ext. 5 ij, in mucilage, 
given immediately; and the following mixture every four 
hours: gum. camph. 3 j, hyosc. ext. 5 j, liquor amnion, acet. 5 >j* 
antim. pot. tart. 9j. The beast to be placed in a sheltered shed, 
warmly clothed with blankets, and littered with straw knee 
deep. Boiled turnips and linseed porridge offered as food. 
March 18/A.—1 found my patient eating bran and cut hay : 
also that he had, during the night, partaken of linseed porridge 
and bran freely. • 
