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the quack blazes it through the country that he has cured so and 
so, belonging to such a person ; at the same time the complaint has 
not been any thing more than a slight cold, which by being kindly 
nursed, and perhaps kept on mashes for a day or two, recovers to 
the great praise of the lying, ignorant, drunken empiric ; and who 
by this means gets a good deal of practice, to the great injury of 
respectable and skilful practitioners, as well as to the great loss of 
the farmers or owners of the stock, senseless enough to employ 
them. It is my firm opinion that three-fourths of all the animals 
that have died lately have been lost through the miserable quack- 
ery of owners and self-styled doctors. I will just relate a case that 
happened lately, which was brought to the very verge of death by 
the most cruel and wanton maltreatment I ever met with, arising 
from the interference of the would-be-knowing owner, and some 
miserably ignorant fellow whom the owner subsequently called in 
after he had tried himself, and the animal had been by the two 
brought to the verge of death. 
On the 3d of October last, about four o’clock in the afternoon, I 
was called upon to attend a cow belonging to a person at Salford, 
who, I had heard, was a knowing self-conceited man, but whom 
had never seen before. I went into his yard, and was shewn the 
sick cow. She was in a large loose box, with folding doors in 
front. To my great surprise I found the place so full of hot steam 
that I could not see my poor patient at all, but I could hear her 
plaintive moan. I then opened the other door, so as to admit some 
pure air, and in a few minutes the steam had partially subsided, 
and I went up to the poor suffering animal. I found her lying down 
on her right side, with her head and neck extended at full length 
on the floor, and she was moaning dreadfully. I caused her to 
rise, which she did with much difficulty, and then I let her stand 
still for a minute or two to compose herself before I began to ex- 
amine her; and when I did so, I found the extremities cold and 
rigid — the back arched — the hair erect — the eyes dull and sunken 
— the mucous membranes very pale — the bowels completely con- 
stipated — pulse almost imperceptible — breathing very low — great 
nervous irritability, and when the stomach was pressed upon she 
evinced great signs of pain. I also found that a large quantity of 
ung. lyttse had been applied on each side of the throat from the 
jaw to the chest. 
The owner now came in, and inquired what I thought of the 
case. I replied that I could not form an opinion of it — I must first 
know the previous history of the case from its commencement, 
which he very willingly gave me. I will recite it in his own words 
as nearly as I can. 
He had purchased this cow at the annual fair held at Man- 
