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The diagnosis was uncertain. It might be an affection of 
the brain, or the wheezing at the chest might indicate the 
commencement of tubercles in the lungs. For a few days 
there was no change under the treatment adopted, when an 
abundant eruption appeared all over the body, but more so 
under the belly and inside the thighs. The pulse was still of 
the same character, but weaker; the appetite, which had re¬ 
mained tolerably good, was now lost; rumination became sus¬ 
pended, and great debility prevailed. The eruption increased, 
and in those parts of the skin that were but scantily covered 
with hair small, red tumours could be seen, of an elongated 
shape, and painful when touched. They were filled with a 
reddish fluid. The abdomen became painful on pressure, the 
evacuations were fetid, sero-bilous, bloody, and accompanied 
by false membranes of various sizes. These symptoms in¬ 
creased in intensity until death took place. 
Autopsia .—The viscera of the chest were healthy, as was 
also the brain ; the spleen was softened; the liver seemed 
enlarged ; the gall-bladder was much distended, and filled with 
thick bile; the rumen, the reticulum, and omasum presented no 
alteration, but the omasum was inflamed, and its appear¬ 
ance recalled to the mind the eruptions on the skin when they 
began to desiccate ; in the duodenum were similar eruptions as 
in the stomach, but here they were more developed ; the 
remainder of the small intestines were ulcerated throughout. 
The caecum presented the greatest change, so much so that 
it was difficult to conceive how the cow could have lived so 
long. The whole of the inner coat was converted into one 
mass of ulcers, and towards the centre there was a perforation 
large enough to pass an egg through, and which seemed to 
have existed for some time before death took place, as there 
were strong, pseudo-membranous adhesions between it and the 
peritoneum. The colon was less affected ; the rectum was 
healthy, and a quantity of liquid was effused in the abdominal 
cavity. 
USE OF PLASTER OF PARIS IN FRACTURES OF BONES. 
By the Same. 
The author is indebted to his friend. Dr. Devals, for the 
suggestion of the use of this agent, which is, in his opinion, 
preferable to any other hitherto employed. The formula is as 
follows:—Plaster of paris, finely powdered, q. s. to make a 
soft paste; gelatine, 2 grammes; water, 1000grammes. The 
gelatine is to be dissolved in the water, after which the plaster 
