MELjENA in cows. 
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I adopted a similar treatment to this animal as I had done 
to the one that was recovering, and in a few weeks she too 
appeared to be quite well, with the exception of much debility 
being present. I therefore ordered plenty of nourishing food, 
with tonics and diffusible stimulants. She subsequently 
parturiated, but I had great difficulty in extracting the calf, 
it being dead, and falsely presented. After this, the cow did 
well for the next three or four days, when, unfortunately, she 
had an apoplectic attack, and although much relieved from 
this, yet she could not stand. She was therefore slung, 
and every means suggested taken to restore her to health, 
but she died s in about a month, a most miserable object. 
A post-mortem examination was made by myself, the record- 
ing of which would throw no light whatever upon our present 
subject. 
Case 3. — I was requested to see a cow belonging to my 
father ; a remarkably large, good framed milking cow, five 
years old. She appeared well the previous evening ; had 
been turned out to grass in the day time, and was tied up at 
night, being allowed good hay. I found her lying down, and 
I could scarcely get her to stand up for a moment. The ears 
and horns were cold; the pulse weak, 74 in number; the 
beat of the heart very loud ; the first and third stomachs full 
and hard. She had not vomited, but had evacuated, with 
some difficulty, a little dark-coloured pitchy matter. I at 
once gave no hope of recovery, but being persuaded to try 
what I could do, I gave her a large dose of linseed oil with 
the oil of croton, combining a gentle stimulant, but she died 
five hours after I first saw her. 
Unfortunately I dislocated my ankle the same day ; they 
therefore sent to me the stomachs, the liver, and the intestines, 
which I examined the following day. The rumen and 
omasum I found filled to repletion with food. The true 
stomach, and the whole of the intestines, contained an im- 
mense quantity of matter similar to that l have before men- 
tioned ; and, strange and incredible as it may appear to those 
who have never witnessed it, I could pull from the intestines 
several feet of it without its breaking. The mucous mem- 
brane was much inflamed, and had many dark patches re- 
sembling ulcers upon it, varying from the size of a sixpence 
to a crown piece. The liver was pale and softened in texture. 
These cases occurred now four years ago ; since which 
time I have had several others, all resembling, more or less 
closely, those I have described. 
I think you will agree with me, that this disease ought n6t 
