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PARTURIENT INSTRUMENTS. 
Note from Mr. Astley M. Metherell, M.R.C.V.S., 
Brighton. 
Sirs, —I noticed in a recent number of the Veterinarian , 
that at a meeting of the “ Yorkshire Veterinary Medical 
Association,” Mr. Benson exhibited some instruments of his 
own invention for use in cases of difficult parturition. One 
of these, I venture to say, from an extended experience, is 
of peculiar value; I allude to the “ clamp ” for seizing the 
ear of the calf or foal. 
The thanks of the profession are certainly due to Mr. 
Benson for this instrument, and I think that every prac¬ 
titioner will find it of great value in effecting delivery in 
the cases of preternatural presentation in mares and cows. 
I am, &c. 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Six ce our last report no further information has been 
received as to the existence of the disease in Europe, with 
the exception of those provinces in Russia which border on 
Austria and Germany, and those adjoining the Black and 
Baltic Seas, where the disease still continues. 
PLEUROPNEUMONIA. 
The measures which have been taken against the spread¬ 
ing of this disease at Brooklyn (America) and its vicinity, 
where it recently existed among cows in an aggravated form, 
are said to have had a beneficial effect, and that the disease 
is gradually diminishing. 
This disease is reported to have appeared in some of the 
communes of the Department of the Somme in France, but 
not to be at present very prevalent. 
In the Netherlands, from 5th September to 2nd October, 
only one case of pleuro-pneumonia occurred in the Province 
of South Holland. 
