REPORTS OF CASES. 
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uel Earp, living about seven miles southwest of our village. On 
my arrival I found a four-months old calf suffering from the 
above complaint. Symptoms. —Breathing, very difficult; some 
saliva running from the mouth, and mucus from the nose; right 
side of the neck very-much swollen, especially in and around 
parotid region ; had been ailing for about fifteen hours. 
Ordered in the way of treatment, formentations aud steaming 
to head: 
Pot. chlor., grs. 40. 
Aqua C., § iv. 
M. sig. three times per day. 
Prognosis unfavorable, which I was told afterward was the 
case, inside of twenty-four hours. 
The other two cases were on the same place, belonging to the 
same man. He told me that they were taken about nine o’clock 
p. tn. day previous; were taken with violent paroxysms caused by 
spasms of laryngeal muscles occurring without any premonitory 
warnings; died in two hours from the time taken; post mortem 
revealed a total closing up of the larynx. 
These calves had been running with the cows in a pasture 
with a living stream running through it, and land rather low; 
had four more calves running with those spoken of, which were 
in perfect health, and have been to this day. 
Cornell, Illinois. 
MURIATE OF COCAINE. 
By Geo. C. Faville, D.V.M. 
The introduction of any preparation into the veterinary phar¬ 
macopoeia that will aid the operator in performing the minor 
operations, either by aiding in the control of the animal or by 
rendering the pain less acute, must be hailed with delight. 
The experiments that have of late been made by members 
of the sister profession, in the use of muriate of cocaine, have 
been of great interest, and the question must have come to 
