610 EMPHYSEMA OF THE LIVER. 
This will require stimulants to excite the stomach to action, and 
aperients, to carry forward the contents of the digestive canal. I 
have seen many cases of cows being down after calving, and do 
not find much trouble in raising them again, if called to the cow 
as soon as she has dropped. There are two things that frustrate 
the cure, — one is an over distended stomach, the other the late 
period at which the attendance of the surgeon is required. I 
commence the treatment, if the cow is in high condition, with 
the abstraction of blood, and follow this by the exhibition of a 
purgative. If she is in poor condition, I omit the bleeding, and 
have recourse to the purgative at once, combined with stimu- 
lants ; and as soon as a purgative effect takes place, I consider 
the patient out of danger. I have had them lie five days, and yet 
get up again. I have had cases directly after calving, and others 
when the calf has been from one to two months old ; and one 
case of a fat cow, which at the full extent of that period, dropped 
in the pasture. I abstracted a little blood, and gave aperients, 
and she recovered. 
Another fat cow was found in the cow-house; Her stomach 
was distended, in consequence of eating too much barley meal. 
She was lying on her right side, and appeared to be so far 
exhausted, that there was no chance of her recovery. Her 
paunch felt like a drum when I pressed upon it. She was in 
good condition, and I therefore told the owner that she ought 
to be killed. On post-mortem examination, every viscus was 
found in a state of perfect health, except the first stomach, 
which was distended almost to bursting. The cow was sold as 
beef for nearly her full value, the owner being well satisfied 
with my honest opinion. 
EMPHYSEMA OF THE LIVER. 
By Mr. W. Richardson, Oundle. 
The subject of this case was a cart mare, five years old, the 
property of a gentleman at Benefield. She was attacked in the 
early part of February, with the then prevailing epidemic. I was 
requested to attend her, and the disease yielded to the remedies 
I usually employ under the same circumstances. She was, when 
I first saw her, exceedingly low in condition, having been worked 
hard at the commencement of the winter, from which period 
there had been a gradual wasting away in her appearance, and 
her movements were dull and sluggish. I had her removed into 
a loose stable (she having been till then in the straw yard), where 
