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REPORTS OF CASES. 
Grenet, say that in this island consumption is as common as 
it is in any part of Europe, and rapidly fatal. We have no 
statistics of the numbers of the population or of the cattle, but 
all the writers who have visited the country speak of the enor¬ 
mous herds of cattle, and say that the principal diet of the 
natives is meat, milk, and rice. The principal occupation of 
the Malagasy is the raising of cattle, thousands of which are 
shipped to the other islands in the Indian Ocean. In fact, the 
Island of Mauritius, with its mixed inhabitants, depend entirely 
on Madagascar for its meat supply. The Rev. William Ellis, 
describing his trip from Tamatave on the coast to the capital, 
a distance of about three hundred miles, tells us of the natives 
presenting him, at the end of every few miles’ journey, with a 
bullock, while the Queen herself, as a token of friendship, pre¬ 
sented him with eleven. He also adds that the natives never 
skin their animals, but cut them up and eat the hide as well 
as the meat. 
( To be continued). 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
“Careful observation makes a skillful 'practitioner , but his skill dies with him. By 
recording his observations he adds to the knowledge of his profession , and as¬ 
sists by his facts in building up the solid edifice of pathological science.' 1 ' 1 —Vet- 
erinaky Record. 
EMBOLISM. 
By C. H. Peabody, D.Y.S., Providence, R. I. 
As we see so few cases of embolism reported and so little 
written about it, I report a case which has come within my 
practice, thinking it might be of some interest to your readers. 
The subject was a sorrel mare, about fifteen hands high, 
twelve years old, had been used for track purposes and was 
quite a roader, having been driven hard and for long distances. 
This is her history as I have it from the owner: The mare 
began to lag in her driving three years ago and over, and trip 
in her nigh hind leg; he did not pay much attention to it, al¬ 
though she always became lame on long drives. He was 
