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in the course of the day he got better without any medicine. In 
this attack the pulse and respiration were natural. Three or four 
days after this I again rode him out a distance of four miles and 
a half, as he seemed quite well. The day was very hot and the 
roads uncommonly dusty. I did not ride him at all fast, but 
occasionally trotted him at a moderate rate for a short distance, 
and then walked him, and I should think I was an hour in going 
there. When there, I believe, he had lain down in the stable, but 
it could not have been for long. Soon afterwards I returned, but 
the nearer I got home the more dogged he became, and I thought I 
should not get him back. I found that he inclined all the way 
home to my left hand, and I was obliged to keep pulling at him and 
hitting him with my whip, to keep him in the middle of the road. 
J ust before I reached home I got off from him, and he immediately 
wanted to lie down, but I kept him on his legs and at last got 
home, when immediately he lay down all at length, seeming as if 
he was fairly jaded and knocked up. His pulse and respiration 
were, as usual, almost natural, and there was nothing about him in- 
dicating active disease. He was allowed to continue to lie down, 
and I did not administer any medicine. In the course of an hour 
or two he got up, and in the afternoon he seemed almost as well 
as usual. I gave him Jiij of copaiba in the course of the three 
or four following days, and then he left us to all appearance as well 
as ever. 
Observations . — I hardly know what this attack was, unless it was 
what is vulgarly called “ megrims.” He did not shew much cerebral 
disease, except the debility after exercise and the wandering towards 
one side of the road : there was no violence or rolling about. The 
first attack looked more like colic, but I do not believe it was. 
MEGRIMS IN A COW. 
By the same. 
2 1st Feb. 1845. — This day Mr. Richards, of Worthenbury, far- 
mer, informed me that he once had a cow that generally every 
second or third evening, and while a person was milking her, would 
drop down in a sort of fit. This was invariably in an evening, and 
the person was always afraid she would fall before she was quite 
milked. She was generally bled as soon as she fell, and quickly 
recovered; but at last the owner, being tired of bleeding her so 
often, blistered her severely at the top and back of the head and 
neck, which perfectly cured her, never having had an attack 
since. 
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