APPARENT DEBILITY ATTENDING PUERPERAL FEVER. 4(15 
April IsL — Eating well ; giving four quarts of milk twice 
a-day ; pulse 75 and rather weak ; tongue, nose, &c. moist ; 
straining a little at intervals, yet but very little. The food to 
consist of boiled oats and hay, also oatmeal gruel in consider- 
able quantities in lieu of water. 
After this she gradually got well, milked largely, and became 
better or higher in condition than any other of the owner’s 
milch cows. She was several times with the bull at the period 
of oestrum, but never afterwards produced a calf. 
That we had here inflammation of the womb, and that with 
a vengeance, is plain enough ; but who will venture to say 
how much was attributable to the natural progress of the dis- 
ease, and how much to the medicines and injections of the 
farrier ? — Y. 
ON THE APPARENT DEBILITY ATTENDING 
PUERPERAL FEVER. 
Bp Mr. Andrew Young, Jedburgh. 
Sir, — l avail myself of your kind and, I hope, properly ap- 
preciated invitation to the members of the profession at large, 
to come forward and contribute their mite to the advancement 
of veterinary science. 
I have been induced to write at this time by reason of a dis- 
cussion which took place at the last reported meeting of the 
Association (a society in whose proceedings I feel deeply inte- 
rested), when views were advocated respecting the nature and 
treatment of puerperal fever with which I am constrained to 
differ. My present intention is to treat the subject generally ; 
perhaps at some future period I may enter into it at greater 
length. 
That plethora is a strong predisposing cause of puerperal fever 
was sufficiently attested by the experience of every veterinary 
surgeon who vouchsafed to state his opinion. That puerperal 
fever does also attack cows when there is no particular fulness 
of habit, I am perfectly aware ; but in such instances I have 
observed it to be comparatively mild, and never fatal in this 
neighbourhood. 
It would be difficult to determine what influence this high- 
conditioned state is capable of exerting over the complicated exci- 
tation, the sexual organs, and of the system which follows partu- 
rition ; and how far it is concerned in that formidable array of 
