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Feb. 27th. — Pulse 80. Physic has operated well. Very 
little distension of the stomach, and no straining, except when 
voiding the urine. I ordered Tartar Emetic, 3 ij, Potass. Nit., 
3ss, Digitalis, 3ij, Camphor, 3 ij, to be given in gruel twice a 
day. 
Feb. 28th. — Pulse 75. Continue in use of the fever medi- 
cine. She “ cleansed 99 to-day. 
March ] st. — Pulse 65. Bowels still relaxed ; appetite 
tolerably good ; and she drinks gruel freely. 
March 2d. — Pulse natural, and appetite returned, and 
otherwise she continues to do well. I consider her to be con- 
valescent. 
P.S. — While I have been writing this, I have heard of the 
death of a cow from the same cause. No assistance was 
afforded her. It is the general opinion of the agricultural 
community in this county that veterinary surgeons know 
very little about cattle, believing that, at a college, they con- 
fine themselves to the study of the horse only. I hope 
that such ideas will be eradicated from their minds before 
long. 
SEVERAL CASES OF FRACTURE. 
By R. P. Foster, Spalding. 
H aving seen in some of the past numbers of The Veteri- 
narian several cases of fracture, I am induced to send you a 
case or two that have occurred in my practice. 
On the 13th of April, 1853, I was requested to see a 
three years old mare that had, two days before, fractured her 
shoulder. The accident happened in the stable, but no account 
of it could be given by the groom, unless that it was done 
by the animal getting across a bar which parted the stalls. 
She was visited the morning after the accident had occurred 
by a member of the profession, who considered the case a 
hopeless one. The owner not feeling satisfied with this 
opinion was the cause of my visit. On my arrival, I found 
the humerus to be fractured, and the shoulder enormously 
swollen. I could therefore give the owner but little hope of 
cure, and told him. further, that it would be attended with a 
great expense. He said he did not mind that, if I would 
undertake the case. I therefore did so, and had the animal 
at once slung in the stall by means of a pair of waggon 
shafts, which I have often found to be a very convenient 
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