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THE BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF CREOSOTE. 
By Mr. JOHN Younghusband, Grey stoke, Cumberland . 
Gentlemen, — I f the following case offers any thing worth re- 
cording in your valuable Journal, I shall feel proud by its insertion, 
it being the only case of the kind ever occurring in my practice, 
and I believe I can say one that occurs but seldom in that of others. 
On the 31st of March, 1845, I was requested by one of my em- 
ployers to call and give my opinion concerning a three-years’ old 
heifer, which he said, a few days before, had got hold of a stocking, 
and which, upon his son attempting to take from her, she made a 
vigorous attempt to swallow, but which act she did not get accom- 
plished, from its sticking a short way down the oesophagus. 
The beast appearing uneasy, she was caught, and the foreign body 
attempted to be extracted with the hand, but the operator failed 
in the attempt. The probang (the owner keeping one of his own) 
was next brought into requisition, with which he easily succeeded 
in passing it down the oesophagean canal. The cow was now let 
loose, and all thought to be right, but, in a few days, it was ob- 
served that she appeared as if she was vomiting her food. Watch- 
ing her a few days longer, it was found that she vomited every thing 
given to her in the shape of food, at which, as I said, my advice was 
required. As soon as convenient I visited my patient, and found 
her in a very emaciated state, with costive bowels, scanty urine, 
&c. I explained the case to the owner as well as I could, and 
gave him very little hope of obtaining a cure ; but he, being a man 
of perseverance, and not daunted at trifles, encouraged me to try, 
by saying we might better the case, but could not make it much 
worse. 
1 ordered her a dose of opening medicine, and sent her a small 
bottle of creosote, directing that she should have four drops twice 
‘a-day in a little gruel, and the creosote to be gradually increased 
to seven drops, if the vomiting was not stayed. After taking 
four doses, not exceeding six drops in a dose, the vomiting was 
completely stopped, at which time the owner came to let me know 
the result, and inquired if she should have any more of the creo- 
sote. My advice was to give no more, unless the vomiting re- 
turned, but to exhibit tonic medicine and try the result, which I am 
pleased to say has proved satisfactory ; and, up to the time of writ- 
ing, the beast has improved, and is now in a fine state of health. 
P.S. I should not have ventured upon so large a dose of the 
creosote, but, a little before the case occurred, I read, in Braith- 
waite’s Retrospective, that a person had been cured of vomiting by 
giving from six to ten drops twice a-day. 
