REPORTS OF CASES. 
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Treatment.— Not being positive as to the nature of the 
malady, no direct line of treatment in the way of medicines 
can be advised. The treatment, however, may consist of two 
orders, viz., prophylactic and curative. 
Prophylactic. — Remove healthy from diseased. Change 
food and water. Change all stock if upon a low land pasture 
to high land, and burn or bury those that succumb to the 
malady. 
Medicinal. —Use nerve tonics and general strengtheners, 
such as nux vomica, gentian, ginger, Fowler’s solution of ar¬ 
senic, sulphate of iron or potassium of iodide. Those reme¬ 
dies may prove of benefit to those affected in arresting tissue 
metamorphosis or degeneration. Again, antiseptics may be 
used with benefit, and in cases where diarrhoea is present a 
good purgative followed by oleaginous drinks will be pro¬ 
ductive of good. 
TRAUMATIC PERICARDITIS. 
By T. B. Rogers, D.V.S. Woodbury N. J. 
Case i. —Knitting-needle laying free in the right ven¬ 
tricle, breathing difficult and painful oedema of the dewlap, 
cough, considerable dullness on percussion over left lung. 
Case destroyed as suspected contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
Post mortem showed peri and endocarditis with congestion 
of the lung. 
Cases 2, 3, 4.—The presence respectively of pieces of plain 
ribbon and barbed wire in the ventricular mass at the base of 
the heart, symptoms like preceding; condition not diagnosed 
before death. 
Cases 5, 6 . —Pieces of umbrella wire and a tenpenny nail 
respectively, in ventricular mass near its base, oedema of dew¬ 
lap, dullness of left chest low down, muffled sounds of the 
heart, painful breathing, all symptoms much augmented on exer¬ 
cise ; condition diagnosed correctly before death. 
Case 7.—Cough, painful breathing, great pain on intercos¬ 
tal pressure, no oedema of dewlap, area of dullness of cardiac 
region increased, condition came on gradually , symptoms in¬ 
creased in severity on exercise; diagnosis, traumatic pericar- 
