94 CASE OF DYSENTERY AND STAKING IN A COW. 
ther notice than to tell them that they shall never find me dis- 
gracing the profession to which I have the honour to belong. 
1 am, Sir, your very obedient servant. 
[Having admitted the letter of Mr. Revis into our Journal, we 
are compelled to insert the reply of Mr. Sparrow. Here the 
matter must drop. We have nobler work to do than need- 
lessly and absurdly to quarrel with each other. — Y.] 
A CASE OF DYSENTERY AND STAKING IN A COW. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, V . S . Whitchurch, Salop. 
On the 1st July, 1842, about six p.m., I was called to attend 
a cow that was ill. The night previously she was apparently 
well, but this morning she was quite off her milk, and was strain- 
ing and voiding a great deal of bloody lymph and mucus. 
Present symptoms . — The straining and voiding of blood and 
bloody lymph, &c., continues, but not in such large quantities. 
She is warm all over, and does not look very ill. Pulse eighty or 
ninety, and tolerably full. On introducing my arm up the rec- 
tum, I found it very hot, and containing a great deal of similar 
matter to that voided. The gut also felt thickened and slimy. 
Treatment . — A pound of sulphate of soda had been given in the 
morning. I now took from her about five quarts of blood, but 
which did not come from her quickly, and it was rather of a 
blackish hue. The loss of blood nearly caused syncope. I gave 
pulv. opii 3j, ol. lini. Oss, and ordered half a pint more oil to be 
given at night, and 3j opii and Oss. of oil the first thing on the next 
morning; gruel was also given by the mouth and in clysters. 
2d day , 9 a.m.— The straining has in a great measure ceased, 
but the blood, & c. comes from her as badly as yesterday. No 
faeces have passed. The ears and horns are cold, and she is weak. 
Pulse 100, and feeble. She seems in pain, as she slightly moves 
her head a little round. She lies down most of the time, and is 
tolerably still. Ordered Jvjss of spt. aeth. nit. in three doses, 
one to be given every two hours, if she is cold. I blistered the 
abdomen. 
6 p.m. — She certainly is worse. The medicine has been given. 
The horns are quite warm, but the ears are not. She is weaker — 
the pulse 120, and feeble. No dung has been voided yet. Continues 
to discharge a little blood and lymph as before. On passing my 
hand up her rectum, I found it contained a similar discharge, but 
