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to be chronic bronchitis, and cases convalescing- from catar¬ 
rhal pneumonia, or capillary bronchitis. Bronchial troubles 
among cattle were enzootic in Westchester County during 
the latter part of the winter and early spring of the present 
year, which made the examination of the animals extremely 
difficult. In many instances it was necessary to re-inspect 
suspicious cases once or even twice at intervals of two or 
three weeks before it could be decided whether the trouble 
was bronchitis or tuberculosis. One animal killed as sus¬ 
picious, and found to be suffering from chronic bronchitis in 
one lung, was not destroyed until two months after she was 
first inspected, yet the piping sound in the lung was as con¬ 
stant at the end of that time as on the first day she was ex¬ 
amined. 
One case killed on suspicion of being phthsical was found 
to have a small bit of a brier bush of some kind (apparently 
either from a raspberry or blackberry bush) in the upper 
posterior part of the right lung, near the outer border. This 
bit of stick was between one inch and two inches long, and 
had been taken into the bronchi with the points of two or 
three thorns on it directed toward the cow’s head, acting as 
barbs, and preventing it from working in any direction ex¬ 
cept farther and farther into the lung. It had evidently been 
in the location where found for some time, as it was sur¬ 
rounded with a calcareous deposit. At the time it was first 
carried down into the trachea, and for some time afterward, 
it must have caused a great deal of irritation along the course 
it took. 
Another cow was killed as a “ roarer,” but upon post¬ 
mortem examination no tuberculous lymphatic glands could 
be found around the larynx, pharynx, or in the mediastinum. 
The trachea was then removed, and it was found to have sev¬ 
eral of its rings fractured at a point midway between the 
larynx and thorax, making it oval instead of round, and caus¬ 
ing a roaring in respiration which after any exertion on her 
part could be heard for about half a mile across the fields. It 
is very possible that this accident to the trachea may have 
been caused in an attempt at some time to smash an apple. 
