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nostrils an hour before death. The right ventricle of the 
heart contained a black clot of blood, the left was empty. 
The liver was much congested, and easily separated by the 
fingers. As to the causes of this case, the author thinks 
that the well water was the origin of the irritation of the 
mucous membrane of the stomach, and that the vomiting 
was consecutive on gastritis, that the congestion of the lungs 
was determined by the reiterated violent efforts to vomit and 
the partial rupture of the diaphragm, &c. 
Annales de Medecine Veterinaire, Bruxelles, Aug., 1861. 
REPORT ON THE STATE OE HEALTH OE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
IN THE PROVINCE OF BRABANT. 
The constitution of the atmosphere during the past sum¬ 
mer was humid, the fodder thereby naturally contained much 
water, and was, consequently, rendered less nutritious, but 
it had not that detrimental effect on the domestic animals 
which might have been expected. 
Bronchitis. —M. Lambeau reports 112 horses to have been 
attacked with this disease ; they were submitted to a hygienic 
treatment, and all got well. M. Fabry says, “Bronchitis and 
broncho-pneumonia have been frequent among the horned 
cattle which were fattening in the meadows.’ 5 “ These affec¬ 
tions, 5 ’ he adds, “the causes of which are easily appreciated, 
and the remedy for which is the abstraction of blood, are 
recognised by the cough, but more so by the sibilant rale, 
with or without crepitation. 55 M. Barry reports that he has 
been consulted on an affection of the respiratory passages, 
by w T hich fourteen milch cows were attacked in the same 
shed. The malady simulated pleuro-pneumonia, with 
which two of his colleagues had confounded it; they had 
one cow killed, which convinced them of their mistake, as 
they could not find the hepatization of the lungs which they 
had prognosticated. M. Barry pronounced it to be bron¬ 
chitis ; he found the following characteristic symptoms:— 
the coat staring, the skin tight; cough sonorous, dry, and 
frequent; emission of urine frequent, almost constant, but 
principally after having taken food or drink; little sensibility 
on pressure of the sides of the chest or the space behind the 
withers. On auscultation of the thorax, in front of the sternum 
and behind the elbow, a strong and dry bruit -de souffle was 
heard; in some cases the bruit de glouglou was also heard; the 
