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Bleeding (in small quantities) has not been found effectual, nor in short any 

 of the remedies yet made use of; therefore, having a chief regard to the ultimate 

 effort of nature, which seem to be to carry off the distemper by an extraordinary 

 discharge of gall, he hoped the use of crocus metallorum, a medicine made use 

 of with success in horses, and a great discharger of gall, as he had known its 

 good effects in the jaundice in men, might be attended with success : he had 

 therefore proposed to some cow-keepers to give to a cow, as soon as taken ill, 

 one of the following balls. 



Take crocus metallorum -J-oz.* in powder ; make it into a ball with dough or 

 crumb of bread moistened ; give the cow a draught of bran and warm water after 

 it, and repeat the draught after every purging stool. 



For the running at the nose, he was told, that pouring a pint of warm vinegar 

 with an ounce of salt into the nostrils, had proved successful in making the cow 

 sneeze, and discharge a great quantity of thick yellow mucus, and other matter, 

 from the nose, after which the cow recovered. 



For the shortness of breath, he had advised the giving, whale-oil, treacle of 

 sugar, each a pint ; flower of brimstone 4 oz. Give it in a mash of malt, or 

 bran and water, twice or thrice a day. 



For the scouring, first give the crocus purge above mentioned ; then give 

 them every 6 or 8 hours the following draught. ./ 



Take whiting 1 lb., bruise it ; pour boiling water on it, a quart or more ; let 

 it stand to settle ; pour off the clear water, and fling it away ; then put a quart 

 of warm water to the wet whiting ; and add bole-armeniac in powder 2 oz., Ve- 

 nice treacle 1 oz., English malt spirits half a pint. -|- 



An Account of a Fractwe of the Os Ilium, and its Cure. By Mr. D. P. Lay- 



ard. Surgeon. N" 477, P- 537. 



Feb. 8, 1745, one John Easdon, about 22 years of age, was jammed between 

 a waggon and a coal cart, as he was getting up into the waggon ; the cart- 

 wheel pressed on the upper part of the left os ilium, and, by a sudden jolt, 

 squeezed him against the waggon, so as to raise him from the waggon-wheel on 

 which he stood ; then the cart going on, the poor man fell on the ground. 



Mr. L. examined the part, and found just below the contusion made by the 

 pressure of the cart wheel, a fracture running quite across the costa of the lefl 

 OS ilium, about 3 fingers breadth below the crista of the said bone ; the end of 

 the upper fractured part being forced in towards the cavity of the abdomen. 



* Or more, according to the size and strength of the cow j or as the first dose is found to operate. 

 — Orig. 



t See a former account of a distemper among cows by Mr. Bates, in vol. vi. p. 375 of thesp 

 Abridgments. 



