A CASE OF PH K EMITS. 
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of the eye plainly indicated that the liver was not free from the 
almost general derangement. The blood, in ail the bleedings, 
did not separate, but formed speedily into a dark homogenous 
mass. It is an instructive case, and one which I consider calcu- 
lated to throw light on future practice. 
A CASE OF PHRENITIS, 
WITH SPASMODIC ACTION OF THE HEART IN A COW. 
By Mr. J. Hayes, Rochdale. 
On the 2d of May, 1827, I was returning from visiting a 
patient, when, on coming to a place called Hufgreen, in the town- 
ship of Ashley, Cheshire, I was surprised at seeing about twelve 
men chasing a cow with long poles, ropes, See. endeavouring to 
entangle her and throw her down, in order that they might kill 
her. She had calved about two months before. She roared and 
tore about most hideously. I inquired the cause of all this ; and 
was told that she began to be this way in the morning, but 
had shewn symptoms of being unwell a day or two before ; that 
she had completely torn all the timber down in the inside of the 
shippen that morning, and roared and slavered most frightfully, 
running her head against any thing that came in her way ; also 
that there had been in the neighbourhood seven other cows 
the same way within the previous three weeks, all of which had 
been shot ; that there had been a strange dog killed close by, 
which they thought was rabid, and which they supposed had 
bitten these cows. 
When the first cow began to be ill, they sent for a practitioner 
at Knutsford. This gentleman was of opinion that the cow was 
rabid, and ordered her to be destroyed, and which order was 
issued against the present cow. I waited till she was got into 
the barn, tied fast down, and secured. I then asked the owner 
if he would allow me to examine her, to which he consented. 
The pulse was so fluttering and quick that I could not count it ; 
the pupils were exceedingly dilated ; the mouth foaming ; the 
tongue protruding out of the mouth ; and very quick and short 
respirations. The action of the heart could be felt in every part 
of the body, with such convulsive jerks as to shake the whole 
frame so violently that it might be seen and heard at a con- 
siderable distance. I signified to the owner a desire to try what 
I could do by the effects of two or three days’ treatment ; and 
he readily agreed I should do what I thought proper with her. 
