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INTUS-SUSCEPTION IN A COW. 
By W. J. ARKCOLL, M.R.C.V.S., Leek , Stafford. 
The subject of this case was a four-year-old cow, belonging 
to Messrs. Ockenhall, near Leek. I was called in to see her on 
Wednesday the 2d. They had noticed her the day before, on 
fetching her up to be milked, running about as if in great pain ; 
and that, on getting her to the cowhouse, they could hardly milk her. 
She was continually stamping and kicking at her belly, and lying 
down. They bled her to the extent of four quarts, and gave her 
one pound of Epsom salts in gruel. I was requested the next 
morning to see her. 
The medicine had not operated. I found her in slight pain — 
eyes bright, with dew on her nose : she would eat nothing. Pulse 
but little affected. I examined her per anum, and found nothing 
but a little slime come away, streaked with blood. Ordered in- 
jections of warm soap and water. Gave magnes. sulph. ifoj, zin- 
gib. §j, crotonis xxx gr., in two quarts of gruel. I was called at 
three o’clock on Thursday morning, and found her no better ; in 
more pain, indeed, and nothing had passed. Sent ol. lini. Oj, 
magnes. sulph. ifess, aloes Barbadens §j, crotonis xxx gr., zin- 
gib. Jss, nitrat. potas. Jss. 
At 1 P.M. no better— Pulse has risen to 90. Prognosis bad. 
I expected some lesion had taken place, as she continually lay 
flat upon her belly, and, if moved, would directly resume that 
position. She died on Friday, at noon. 
On making a post-mortem examination, every part of the inside 
had the aspect of health, except that about three yards from the 
anus eighteen inches of the intestine had run into the adjoining 
portion, and, of course, a great deal of inflammation had been set 
up around the intus-susception. The physic had acted on the 
stomachs. I suppose there is no accounting how the intestines 
got into such a position. 
A FEW REMARKS ON THE USE OF SEDATIVES 
AND TOXICATIVES IN TETANUS. 
By William Gavin, M.R.C.V.S. 
From a query of Mr. Davies’s, which appeared in your Journal 
of last month, viz. Would not tobacco, hellebore, ethoc omne genus, 
be always preferable, as sedatives, to opium, in cases where it is 
