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STRICTURE OF THE DUODENUM OF A COW. 
to great men’s houses. The introduction of this true plane 
among us is, perhaps, due to the great Lord Chancellor 
Bacon, who planted those (still flourishing ones) at Verulum. 
As to mine, I owe it to that honorable gentleman, the late 
Sir George Crook, of Oxfordshire, from whose bounty a 
hopeful plant is now growing in my villa” (‘ Silva,’ pp. 
58—62). 
So much for Evelyn’s quaint and verbose description of 
the plane, which, after all, is sufficient to show us the esteem 
in which this grand tree has so long been held. 
We have, then, in the whole of this alliance an assemblage 
of most curious and interesting herbaceous plants, shrubs, 
and even mighty forest trees, all of which are of value in 
some way or another, but few of which can be considered 
as of medicinal or even dietetic importance. Still their 
connection with the plants which surround them, and their 
diversity in external structure and wonderful agreement in 
important minutiae, are such as to recommend them to most 
attentive study. 
In the next Euphorbioles we shall have to consider plants 
less obtrusive for grandeur, but more important in a medicinal 
point of view. 
STRICTURE OF THE DUODENUM OF A COW. 
By Jeffery Barton, Y.S., Dover. 
About ten months since I was sent for to attend a cow, 
seven years old, the property of E. P. Robinson, Esq., Far- 
thingloe Farm, near Dover. 
I found constipation of the bowels to exist, accompanied 
with slight abdominal pains, and also at intervals with 
tympanitis. The animal was continually moaning. 
Diagnosis .—Impaction of food in the omasum. The 
usual remedies were had recourse to, and in a few days, to 
all appearance, the cow was well. She voided her faeces as 
usual, but ‘ the moaning continued up to December 30th, 
1871, when she was killed. 
On the 12th of this month I was again applied to, the 
man saying the cow was suffering just as she did before, and 
that her illness had been coming on some time. On my 
arrival I found the symptoms much the same as on the 
former occasion. Similar treatment was adopted and per¬ 
severed in, but without any benefit. 
My partner (who had also seen the case with me on this 
