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THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OP 



hind extremities cold. Abdomen slightly tympanitic* There 

 is no appearance of either dung or urine having been recently 

 voided. 



Diagnosis, f Puerperal Fever. 



Prognosis, | Speedy death. 



I shall offer no comment on this case, but respectfully ask 

 the reader's attention to article "horn-ail," which will be 

 found at page 259. It may not, however, be out of place to 

 remark, that being satisfied there was no help for the poor 

 creature, I declined doing any thing. Under such circumstances 

 I hold t© the doctrine that " it is the province of the good phy- 

 sician to know when to do nothing ; " for the censurable practice 

 8C often pursued of worrying a dying creature by forcing a hor- 

 rid mass of " hotch potch," down its throat, is a proceeding 

 which a Christian community should set their faces against. 



INVERSION OF THE WOMB AFTER CALVING. For explanation see p. 391. 



=* Tympanitis. Distended by flatus or gas. 



t Diagnosis. The art of discriminating diseases. 



X Prognosis. The art of foretelling the result of diseases. 



