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much swollen, and painful from the pharynx right down to its 
entrance to chest. A piece of string hanging loosely from the 
mouth was fastened to the near horn; the cow at short intervals 
being seized with severe fits of coughing, associated with 
copious discharges of saliva tinged with blood from mouth and 
nostrils. 
Before making a minute examination of the parts, the 
owner gave me the following information: The piece of string 
so-called had, by a peculiar knot just outside the mouth, been 
identified by the shepherd as a piece of a fishing line, on the 
end of which, he said, were fastened two fish hooks. The 
shepherd’s cottage is situated on the bank of the river Avon, 
and adjourning the field in which had been grazing Mr. Wood- 
ware’s (the owner) cows. The line had been laid beside the 
fence, and keep being short the cow was supposed to have 
picked up the hook and line when licking around the root of 
fence. The owner also informed me that he had the day 
previous attempted to remove the hooks by the aid of a willow 
with a ring attached, but finding this gave rise to coughing and 
bleeding, he gave up the idea. 
With the above information, I endeavored to locate the seat 
of attachment of the hooks, but this, owing to the oesophagus 
being equally painful and swollen throughout its visible course, 
I was unable to do. However, with Mr. Woodward’s permis¬ 
sion, resolved to try and remove the hooks by the use of the 
probang; so fastening a strong piece of string to that hanging 
from cow’s mouth, I passed this up through the probang, minus 
the stillette, and over both I passed the mouth gag and fixed 
this in position, and then had the head of cow drawn well up 
by a rope from horns over the doorway, and with a man on 
each side to keep the head straight, I proceeded to gently pass 
the well-oiled probang with one hand, while holding the string 
with the other. The instrument passed down quite smoothly 
till within a few inches of the stomach, when it became inter¬ 
rupted, but with a very slight jerk it moved on, and now, 
slightly tightening string at outer end of probang, I removed 
