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favour the rank vegetation; 4th, that to discover the true 
cause, and thereby arrive at the means of arresting the 
malady, it is indispensable that a commission should be ap¬ 
pointed competent to study the matter ] 5th, that the com¬ 
mission should be composed of botanists, geologists, che¬ 
mists, and veterinary surgeons; 6th, the inquiry should be 
comparative; that is, the flora of the obnoxious mountain 
shall be compared with that of other mountains, and the 
proportion of other plants which grow on them. 
DROPSY OP THE AMNION. 
By M. N. P. Roinaed. 
This case occurred in a cow* eight months gone in calf. 
She had never been ill. About a month previous to the 
detection of the disease the proprietor perceived unusual 
development of the abdonien, which from that time gradu¬ 
ally increased. The animal fed well up to the time, but 
suddenly the appetite ceased, and the secretion of the milk 
also. On the visit of the author, the cow’ w’as lying on the 
sternum. The respiration was difficult. The animal was made 
to get up for the purpose of examination. She lay down again 
immediately. The pulse was small but regular; the conjunctiva 
injected; the abdomen enormously distended, irr8i*e particu¬ 
larly on the right side interiorly. There was dulness on per¬ 
cussion, no pain; a little meteorization also existed ; evacu¬ 
ations scanty; urine free but not abundant. The volume of 
the abdomen, the dulness of sound, principally at the lower 
region, though there was not the usual bruit (gurgling) 
led the author to the diagnosis of dropsy of the amnion. 
Thinking that the life of the animal was seriously com¬ 
promised, still he was reluctant to advise an operation which 
might be followed by death, viz. to procure abortion ; he 
therefore temporised by prescribing some treatment. But 
the cow died the next day. The autopsy completely bore 
out the diagnosis. 
INTESTINAL APOPLEXY. 
By M. Gexee, Veterinary Surgeon. 
Under this designation, the author describes a malady 
which broke out in the sheds of a cultivator and distiller 
