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PLEURO-PNEUMON I A. 
Chester on the 1st of October, which was the Wednesday pre- 
vious. She had calved on the Sunday before, and had stood in 
the open fair, on a damp and wet ground, all day ; and when he 
brought her home at night, he thought she looked dull, and found 
that she would not eat any kind of food ; so he very wisely ima- 
gined that she had got a slight cold, by having so recently calved, 
and standing in the cold damp fair all day : and being his own 
doctor, generally, he thought he would give her a little opening 
medicine, and see how she was in the morning ; so accordingly 
he prepared and administered the following curious but abominable 
compound of rubbish : — One pound of Epsom salts, a quarter of 
pound of sulphur, two ounces of nitrate of potash, one pound 
of hogs’ lard, one pound of treacle, and about one pound of rancid 
bacon, boiled in oatmeal gruel, and all mixed together, and given to 
the cow at one dose. On the next morning she was no better — the 
medicine had not operated — there was no appetite, and he imagined 
it must be some new disease, so he bled her to the amount of seven 
quarts, and repeated the dose beforementioned ; gave her an in- 
jection or two of soap and water, and filled the place with steam, 
which he could readily effect by an apparatus he had in the wall, 
and that was connected with a boiler, and by shutting the folding 
doors already spoken of, and putting on the steam, he could fill the 
box with it in a few minutes, with which, he said, he would sweat 
the disease out of the beast. 
At night she appeared no better — the bowels had not been acted 
upon — she would not take any thing in the form of food or drink, 
and therefore he sent for a person in the neighbourhood who styled 
himself a veterinary surgeon. 
In a short time this would-be veterinarian arrived, examined the 
cow, and declared that it was a bad case. He then, with the con- 
currence of the owner, abstracted full six quarts more blood, making 
thirteen quarts of blood abstracted in less than twelve hours ; 
repeated a similar dose to the one beforementioned; applied the 
blistering ointment as mentioned above, and ordered injections fre- 
quently. The next morning the patient was no better, but worse, 
being duller, weaker, and ) r et no passage. In the afternoon the 
owner sent for me, and when I arrived I found her, as before stated, 
as low as she possibly could be brought ; all the natural organs 
seemed inactive and dormant, and the poor suffering animal was 
almost at death’s door. 
My prognosis, of course, was unfavourable; for what other state- 
ment could I give under the beforementioned circumstances, but 
that the cow had to all appearance been labouring under a slight 
cold that had brought on indigestion ; and that the unscientific and 
cold compound of unsuitable medicine had fallen into the rumen 
