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quart of ginger tea may be given, and it may do more good if 

 a small quantity of carbonate of soda be added to the same. 



Should the animal be thirsty, a small quantity of powdered 

 nitre may be dissolved in water or thin gruel, and offered to 

 her. 



After the bowels have operated, the danger passed, a few 

 doses of alterative medicine may be given. This is composed 

 of— 



Powdered Goldenseal, 2 ounces. 



" Ginger, 1 ounce. 



" Sulphur, 2 ovnces. 



Mix, divide into eight parts, and give one, daily, in the food 

 or by drench. 



The following case, from the author's note-book, is here in- 

 troduced to illustrate a new mode of treatment : — 



The case to which the following remarks allude, occurred in 

 a five-years-old coW, the property of Mr. G., Maiden, Mass. 

 The animal gave birth, without assistance, to a healthy male 

 calf; the birth took place during the night-time, at pasture, the 

 weather being rather tempestuous. Three days after parturi- 

 tion, the cow showed symptoms of failing health, and the owner, 

 like a sensible man, instead of boring the animal's horns, at 

 the suggestions of the neighbors, preferred to seek advice; 

 hence my services were secured. 



Recorded Symptoms. — Patient, down on left side ; pupils 

 amaurotic ; pulse scarcely perceptible ; respiration of a ster- 

 torous character, and accelerated ; surface of the body com- 

 fortably warm, visible surfaces, of a leaden hue ; abdomen 

 slightly tympanitic. The animal occasionally turns its head 

 towards the costal region, and returns it recklessly to the floor ; 

 mamma tumefied and hot ; internal surface of the labia pudendi 

 inflamed. The patient takes no notice of its offspring. 



Treatment. — Applied counter-irritants to the spinal and 

 pectoral regions, and then applied sulphuric ether to the nos- 

 trils. The object in administering sulphuric ether was to 

 diminish the reflex excitability of the nervous system, and so 

 cut short the convulsive paroxysms. 

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