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My second case was also a calf ; the disease was produced by the 
same cause, but the operation was performed by another man. It was 
treated in the same manner as the first, and with a similar result. 
Case third was a young bull castrated by me. He did re¬ 
markably well, and the wounds were quite healed. lie was then 
placed on some meadows, surrounded by dykes filled with water, 
into one of which he fell, and where he was discovered when the 
boy went to fetch home the stock in the evening; assistance being 
at hand, the animal was rescued from his unenviable position, 
driven home, and placed in a house for the night. The next 
morning he was ordered to the meadows again, but all the boy’s 
efforts, threats, and entreaties, even with the free use of the stick, 
utterly failed to move the poor wretch a step. The owner’s atten¬ 
tion was then directed to the case, but with no better results, and I 
was requested to attend, as the young bull was reg’lar set fast, 
and couldn’t move at all.” On reaching the farm I found the above 
description to be no overdrawn picture of the condition of my 
patient, which I pronounced to be such as to afford very small chance 
of recovery. An attempt was made to administer a draught, but 
to no purpose, and nothing further was done except to place a bran 
mash in the house and shut the door. He died on the following 
dav, but it could not be said of him that he was doctored to 
death. 
My fourth was an idiopathic case, supervening on influenza and 
exposure to cold easterly winds ; the symptoms were well marked, 
but not of that acute type I had witnessed in my former patients ; 
the subject was a cart mare of middle age, and the treatment con¬ 
sisted of prussic acid, 5ss twice daily, compound ammon. liniment 
to the head and neck, and a rug w^as placed over the loins. Mashes 
and flour-water were placed in the manger, and strict orders were 
given as to quietude. In a few days the symptoms were more 
favorable, the spasm had somewhat relaxed, and the mare got a little 
hay into her mouth, but could neither masticate nor swallow it. 
At the expiration of the second WTek a marked improvement had 
taken place, and she could manage to eat a little hay. From this 
time, she continued to improve; and as soon as I could do][so with 
safety I discontinued the acid and finished off the case with vege¬ 
table tonics and ammonia. 
Case fifth was also idiopathic, and occurred in a foal, aged about 
two weeks. I found it lying down and unable to stand; nothing 
was attempted in the shape of treatment, and the patient died 
during the dav. 
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Case sixth was that of a cow which had been turned into the 
field about two weeks after calving, and being unwell \vas removed 
home to the farmstead with some difficulty, and a farrier called in, 
under wdiose treatment she became much worse, and I was then 
requested to attend. I found her down and unable to rise, or to 
deglutate ; indeed, she was in such a pitiable condition that I 
advised the owner to have her destroyed, but as he preferred to wait 
a day or two longer, I left him four doses of the acid, which w’ere 
