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SUPPOSED POISONING IN COWS. 
it would continue, I did not prescribe any purging medicine, 
merely — 
9: Ext. Belladonna, 5j ; 
Aquae, §iv. 
However, there was no more purging, so — 
17th.— 
Crotonis Ear., gr. xv ; 
Aloes, 5ij ; 
Ext. Belladonnae, 5j ; 
Aquae, 3viij. 
18th. — No motion ; repeat drink; the spasms are not so 
violent. 
19th. — No purging; repeat draught; p.m., though not 
purged, he is decidedly better. 
20th. — Doing well ; faeces natural ; p.m., very much better. 
21st. — T now consider him out of danger. He is a good 
deal tucked up, but hearty. He was throughout a good 
patient, and took his drinks kindly. 
INTUS-SUSCEPTION, 
B. 29, a fine bay horse, Persian, admitted about half-past 
five p.m. of 21st of September, said to be griped; but after 
his arrival he appeared perfectly well, no pain apparent ; de- 
tain him for the night. About ten p.m., I was called, the 
horse was very ill ; standing; blowing ; extremities cold ; 
pulse weak; I could not understand it, but I ordered a blister 
to his sides, and — 
Calomel., 5j; 
Ext. Belladonnae, 5ij ; 
Aloes, 5v. 
About three a.m., 22d, I was again called ; he had just 
fallen, and in ten minutes was dead. I. C. at daylight — the 
cavity of abdomen full of bloody fluid, and intus-susception 
of intestine in two places ; the mesentery black. 
Is it not curious that this horse should have stood till the 
last ; no expression (violent) of pain, no pawing, &c. ? 
Very sincerely yours. 
CASES OF SUPPOSED POISONING IN COWS. 
By Mr. Dorrofield, M.R.C.V.S,, Bickmansworth. 
On Sunday morning, Oct. 29, 1 was requested by a farmer 
in the neighbourhood to come to his place to look at some 
