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of pus came away ; bowels constipated, urine scanty. I ex¬ 
amined her mouth and found the dental pad had ulcerated 
patches on it and a very foetid smell; mouth was very hot and 
tender ; also some ulcers around the gums of lower jaw and 
some of the incisors very loose ; one I picked right out. The 
owner put a piece of pumpkin back in the mouth and she ate 
it greedily. As this was the first case of the kind I had met I 
was guarded in my diagnosis, thinking I might have a case of 
contagious aphtha or foot-and-mouth disease, as everybody in 
the old country calls it. I gave the cow sulphate soda, 3 viii; 
zingiberis, 3 ii, in solution, at one dose, and left one-half pound 
more of the same to give her a tablespoonful three times daily 
dissolved in hot water and put into her feed. Feed consisted of 
scalded oats and bran, very sloppy. Swabbed her mouth with 
some of the following : Tannic acid, borax, and glycerine in 
aqueous solution, and ordered it swabbed three or four times 
daily. Cow did nicely and was well in about ten days. The 
nextday I got two more cases about twenty miles in another 
direction, and for about four weeks I treated twenty-seven cases 
in all, with symptoms about the same, with a few variations; 
one or two, I think, had small ulcers form on leg and a few had 
ulcers in cleft and around coronet of feet. 
Now, can any of my fellow practitioners tell me what caused 
it ? Was it due to some poisonous weed or some toxin poison¬ 
ing? I will say that I did not have a new case after the first 
frost came and all the cows treated were at pasture. I heard of 
several cows that just starved to death before they found out 
what was the trouble. 
•* • 
WHAT BECAME OF THE STICK? 
By J. F. De Vine, D V. S., Rhinebeck, N. Y. 
On January 23d I was called to Mr. D.’s stock farm and on 
my arrival found the subject to be a ewe. The herdsman gave 
the following history : Ewe lambed last night ; was bright and 
ate well this morning ; fed cut turnips and meal to flock at noon; 
after feeding her, and while feeding the others, she began to 
jump about violently in pen ; found she had piece of turnip in 
her throat. Immediately he picked up a piece of bale-stick, 
about 1 feet in length, smoothed it with a knife and wrapped 
cloth on one end and oiled it and then proceeded to dislodge 
the turnip. After passing the stick down about one foot, the 
animal made a bound in the air, breaking the stick close to the 
hand. He showed me the stick, or- what remained of it, and it 
