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of tlie ulcers with the hot iron (the animal exhibited no 
signs of pain). Mouth injected twice daily with tincture of 
quinine, after the cavity had been carefully cleaned out ; 
also fifteen grammes of chloride of sodium daily dissolved in 
the drinking-milk. Drink frequently given, and the cow¬ 
house to be kept in good order. After invading the whole 
length of the tongue, the ulceration (five days later) seemed 
inclined to limit its extent by the formation of a red line of 
demarcation. Seven days later the animal died. In this 
very severe case the superior maxilla was necrosed below 
the ulcer, and the retropharyngeal lymphatics were enlarged 
and soft. The patient was three days old when first 
affected. 
Case 3. —Aged five days, belonged to the same lot as Case 
2, and was simultaneously attacked. It was treated and 
cured within eighteen days by washings with salt and water, 
removal of the gangrenous parts, and dressings with solution 
of perchloride of iron twice daily. 
Case 4.—A male calf, three weeks old, born on the farm, 
treated early with success. “ The cause of the disease in 
this case was undoubtedly umbilical phlebitis,” as also in 
Case 5, which died on the ninth day, presenting on autopsy 
the ordinary lesions of the mouth, liver increased in size, 
and suppuration of the umbilical vein, whence it terminates 
against that organ. 
Case 6.—‘Female calf, aged 28 days, also suffering from 
umbilical phlebitis. Here an abscess traversed the cartilage 
of the inferior maxillary symphysis, and burst below in the 
chin. The patient died on the thirty-ninth day, having all 
the floor of the mouth diseased from the first molars to the 
incisors, the maxillary bone being exposed and covered with 
a layer of greyish caseous matter of a decidedly gangrenous 
odour. The lung was affected with disseminated lobular 
pneumonia invading the two lobes, and the liver was in¬ 
creased in size by congestion. 
Case. 7.—Attributed to an attempt to rear the calf (aged 
one month, a female) on toast and water. Died. 
Case 8.—Holland bull, aged about one month, kept 
in a most unhealthy house. Cured after twelve days’ 
treatment. 
Case 9.—Durham-Flemish calf, aged 22 days. Cured 
after fifteen days. 
Case 10.—Female calf, Flemish, aged 15 days. Treated 
with sea-salt, coffee, and brandy. Cured after three weeks. 
“ These cases suffice to prove the occurrence in calves of 
the disease seen in children. It is not confined to bovines, 
