DEATH FROM DRENCHING. 
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The first was a two-year-old colt taken poorly with sore throat, 
cough, running at the nose, and all the symptoms of influenza. I 
attended him for a time, administering suitable medicine, causing 
his nose to be steamed, his throat well rubbed with stimulating 
liniment; and he began to recover, when the owner turned him out. 
The cough and the sore throat soon returned. He came to me for 
liniment for his throat, and then went to a chemist, as he afterwards 
said, for some nourishing powders for him. He sent to me in a 
great hurry, about nine P.M., to come and see the colt. They had 
been administering the powders, and directly after giving them he 
broke out in a cold sweat, with shivering, pawing the litter, lying 
down, and all the symptoms of violent pain. I directly imagined 
the cause, and upon making inquiry of the messenger (who held 
the colt’s head while the owner administered the medicine) found, 
while taking the first hornful, he began to cough, but they would 
not let his head down for fear of losing the medicine. On arriving 
at the place, a mile from my house, I found my patient in a 
pitiable state ; covered with cold sweat, continually up and down, 
with respiration much quickened, pulse about 110, and extremi- 
ties cold. I told the owner it was a hopeless case. He, however, 
felt desirous I should give him some medicine, and I administered 
opium, digitalis, nitrate of potass, and aloes ; and after a deal of 
trouble managed to abstract about a quart of blood, black and thick. 
He died at four A.M. 
Business intervening, I was unable to make a post-mortem ; but, 
on making inquiry, having directed them to examine the trachea, I 
was told the whole of its lining was found very much inflamed, filled 
with froth mixed with particles of the medicine ; the lungs gorged 
and black. 
The second case was a valuable cow belonging to Mr. Smith, 
# near Enda. She was taken poorly, and assistance was sought of 
a smith living near, who sent a drink, which they gave out of a tea- 
pot , , having neither horn nor bottle in the place. After taking the 
medicine she became rapidly worse — refused meat — commenced 
coughing — breathed very quick Her master then sent in a hurry 
for me, expecting he had got a case of pleuro -pneumonia. On ar- 
riving, I found her with nose extended, breathing very quick, and 
a nasty cough — pulse about 90. I rather imagined it was pleuro- 
pneumonia myself. Still, there was not that sound at the lungs 
we would expect from the urgency of the other symptoms. I bled 
to the extent of two quarts, when she dropped. I then adminis- 
tered sulph. magnes. ^xiij combined with zingib. dig. & nit. potass., 
leaving her till the next morning, when, upon visiting, I found 
her rather better, and the medicine operating. Then, for the first 
time, they told me of administering the medicine, and out of what 
