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CASES OF (ESOPHAGOTOMY. 
In this desperate state of things, many would have had recourse 
to incisions into the flank ; but I never saw this attended with any 
really beneficial consequences, and therefore resolved still to adhere 
to a therapeutic course of treatment. 
The idea crossed my mind of using emetics, in order thus to act 
upon the stomach, and force the impediments contained in it up- 
wards, and thus produce rumination, or that which would in all 
probability precede it, vomiting. With this intention I gave 
Rad. veratr. alb 9iv 
Aq. comm Jvj, in one dose. 
Soon after the administration of this medicine the animal began to 
nod its head, a symptom which frequently attends indigestion in 
cattle, and one which I consider indicative of a disposition to rumi- 
nation; this did not, however, come on, but the animal appeared un- 
easy, and saliva ran from its mouth. About an hour after the ad- 
ministration of the medicine I had the cow led out of the stall, and 
the motion was followed almost immediately by vomiting, and that 
to such an excess, that three stable -pailsfull of vomited matter were 
taken up, consisting for the most part of hard stalks, from four to 
six inches long, and but little mixed with fluidity. Tremblings, cold 
sweat, exhaustion, and an irregular singular state of the pulse, accom- 
panied this vomiting, which lasted about three quarters of an hour. 
The animal remained very weak for a long time, and shewed no sign 
of appetite at first ; the pulse continued for many hours to be irre- 
gular and intermittent. Twelve hours afterwards all the functions 
began to resume their natural office. Rumination commenced ; dung 
was voided intermixed with hard stalks; and the patient appeared 
calm. The farther treatment consisted merely of bitter aromatic 
drugs and small doses of tart, stibiatus; and, in a short time, the 
animal was perfectly recovered. 
Magazinfur die Gesammte Thierheilkunde, 1840, y>. 73. 
TWO CASES OF CESOPHAGOTOMY. 
By Mr. Charles Tennant, Maybole , Ayrshire . 
On the 5th of August, 1843, 1 was requested to examine a hull, 
a year old, at Milton, near Maybole, by the owner, Mr. Allen, 
who told me that he did not expect that I should arrive in time to 
see him alive, although the distance was only about three miles. 
However, being anxious to ascertain, if possible, what might be 
