CORRESPONDENCE. 
Hillsboro, O. 
Editor American Veterinary Review, New York: 
In March number, page 806, a “ curious case of cryptor- 
chidy ” is related, translated from the French. The case is called 
a “ quadriorchidy ” and claimed to be the first. 
After reading it carefully, I am convinced the “ small body ” 
removed from each side was nothing more than an enlarged 
epididymis. 
I have known cases that had been similarly operated upon 
and afterward had to be really castrated. 
Yours truly, 
S. R. Howard. 
Tampa, Fla., June 9, 1912. 
Editors of American Veterinary Review, New York, N. Y.: 
In reply to Drs. Deavenport and Heiny, of Mississippi, as to 
their case of paresis, I can say that in my short experience of 
eight years in and around Tampa, Fla., I have found such cases 
as they report not unusual, and the air pressure treatment always 
successful. I well remember my first case of this class, for it 
fooled me for three days. The cow was not down, but staggered 
some when forced to move, rumination suppressed and the animal 
constipated. These symptoms I read as digestive disturbance and 
so treated. There was no recent calf, nor was one expected. On 
the third day I entered the yard about noon, found the cow down, 
lying in normal position, but unable to rise when called upon to 
make the effort. I then decided to try inflating the udder as a last 
resort. The animal was up and apparently normal that evening 
and gave no further trouble. Since that experience I have never 
hesitated to use the air treatment where there is any indication of 
paresis, unaccounted for by traumatism or some other equally 
well marked condition. I have had one case in a non-pregnant 
cow, where the last calf was a yearling or older. This animal 
had been down more than twenty-four hours when I was called to 
the case. All the neighbors, including a dairyman or two, who 
really did know from which end of a cow the milk came, had 
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