CANCER OF THE ORBIT OF A COW. 71 
general management, and directed that he should take, every 
four hours, — 
Carb. Ammon., ^ij ; 
Eth. Tinct. Belladonna, 
Spt. Nitric. Ether., aa ; 
Aquae, ^viij. 
On repeating my visit early next morning, I found that he 
had died during the night. The attendant informed me that 
he appeared, after the application of the remedial measures, 
to get better, as he lay quiet for some hours ; but towards 
the evening got up and stood till about eight o’clock, when 
he fell, and died almost without a struggle. From this descrip- 
tion I concluded that mortification had taken place ; but, on 
opening him, which I did immediately, I was somewhat sur- 
prised to see the small amount of discoloration of the abdo- 
minal viscera which existed. The mesentery w as congested, 
but the whole of the intestinal canal w r as nearly of a normal 
colour throughout. On an inspection of the small intestines, 
the ileum, at its termination in the caecum, was found to be 
filled to distension with closely packed and dry ingesta. 
The contents of the large bowels were semifluid, but 
the stomach was filled to repletion with unmasticated chaff 
and oats, the weight of its contents being forty-eight pounds. 
I do not consider this an unusual case, but as being one of 
those annoying cases where death occurs sooner than the 
symptoms would lead us to suppose. It is instructive in as far 
as we learn that a fatal result may attend inpaction of food in 
the small intestines without a post-mortem examination reveal- 
ing, as might be supposed, a large amount of inflammation 
or the existence of mortification. 
We may conclude that even had the stomach been relieved 
of its contents, by the use of the stomach-pump, little good 
would have been done, for we should have had a more 
powerful enemy to contend with in the over-distended small 
intestine. 
CANCER OF THE ORBIT AND CONTIGUOUS 
PARTS IN A COW. 
By Robert Cook, M.R.C.Y.S., Erith. 
I beg to forward for your inspection part of the head of a 
cow, the orbit of which is, as you will perceive, affected with 
a fungoid growth. I am able to give you but a very brief 
account of the progress of the case as the animal was not 
