CHRONIC DISEASE OF THE URINO-GENERATIVK ORGANS, 333 
R Aloes Pulv., $ij ; 
Digitalis Pulv., 5j 5 
Potass. Nit., 5ij ; 
Mass. Com., q. s. fiat bolus. 
Continue the fomentations and dressings to the wound* 
4th. — Wound suppurating. General improvement well 
marked. Eats a little bran mash with scalded oats. From 
this date to the 7th she continued to go on well, when a 
sudden change for the worse took place. The wound ceased 
to discharge, and all the symptoms of coma returned. In 
a state quite unconscious of anything, she fell to the ground, 
the tongue protruding from the mouth, &c. With my 
scalpel I enlarged the wound in the skin, and passed my probe 
into the cranial cavity, when I gave exit to some pus which 
was pent up in the skull and produced pressure on the 
cerebrum. The cause of this relapse being removed, the 
animal gradually improved, and, with my occasional attend- 
ance, in about three weeks from this date she had perfectly 
recovered. 
CHRONIC DISEASE OF THE URINO-GENERATIYE 
ORGANS OF A COW. 
By F. J. Parsons, Bideford. 
I send you a small box containing the kidneys of a 
cow which had been suffering from disease of the urinary 
and generative organs for a long time. The history of the 
case, as far as I have any knowledge of it, is as follows : 
A few weeks since, a butcher in this neighbourhood bought 
the cow at a fair, warranted to be all right. The buyer, 
however, when dealing, remarked that she was very thin in 
condition, and looked bad in her coat. The reply was that 
she had been nearly starved, but that she v 7 as sound. 
She had a fine fat calf by her side, which induced the 
butcher to buy her ; but the fact is that the cow had been ill 
long before this calf was born, and it, without doubt, was 
taken from another cow 7 and put with her on that day, for 
on the following morning the cow w 7 as found to give but very 
little milk, and this of the worst possible quality, not a w 7 hit 
better than skim milk. The calf w 7 as killed and sold as good 
veal, but the cow wasted daily, and was almost ahvays strain- 
ing, as if a portion of the placental membranes remained in 
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