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abnormal in appearance, the trachea and larger bronchii contained 
some white froth ; heart ecchymosed over external surface, inter¬ 
nally destitute of blood-clots, and the small amount of blood con¬ 
tained was very thin and watery, slight petechia in left ventricle. 
Spleen, weight three and one-quarter pounds, internal structure 
broken down. Abomasum presented several small ulcers and 
abrasions, and a general redness of the lining, as did also the 
small intestines. Liver, weight thirteen pounds ; gall bladder 
contained about three ounces of very dark-colored bile of a gran¬ 
ular appearance. Urine bladder contained about twenty ounces 
of a dull, red-colored urine. Hard balls of faeces, coated with 
mucus and clotted blood, were found in the blind end of coecum. 
October 20th—No. 1.—Pulse 56, gaining in milk ; No, 2, 
pulse 54 ; No. 4, pulse 68; No. 3, yielding a full amount of 
milk. 
In the afternoon I made another visit, accompanied by Dr. 
W. B. E. Miller, who concurred with me in pronouncing them 
all convalescent. 
October 24th—No. 2 had a miscarriage, otherwise doing well. 
On the 3d day of October, Mr. Echtinaeh found a yearling 
heifer dead in his pasture, making a total loss of three, and six 
recoveries in the herd of forty animals exposed. 
AB0RTI0NING CATTLE. 
By John Faust, Y.S. 
From encouragement extended to me and the earnest request 
contained in the quarterly journal of William R. Jenkins, for 
some one to renew the subject of abortion in cattle, I have been 
induced to send you this article. 
I cannot advance any satisfactory theory as to the cause of this 
malady among cattle, and the German medical treatises in my 
possession do not.aid me in my researches. 
The medicine prescribed and used by myself for the past few 
years in the treatment of aborting cattle is viburnum prunifoli- 
um, and it has been attended with remarkable success. 
