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the teats when there was milk-fever, or any thing wrong with the 
milk. 
I have the honour to be 
Your obedient servant, 
J. B. N. 
22d February, 1850. 
*** The gin operated in the same manner as chloroform or any 
other intoxicating agent would have done. By rendering the 
patient obtuse or insensible to pain, it enfeebled or put an end to 
those resistent powers which had, until then, but too successfully 
opposed the expulsatory efforts of the uterus. — Ed. Yet. 
SURFEIT, AND CONSTIPATION OF THE STOMACH, 
IN A COW, 
PRODUCED BY EATING THE INTESTINES OF SEVERAL DEAD 
ANIMALS. 
By P. Leach, M.R.C.V.S. 
To the Editor of** The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — SHOULD the following be considered worthy of a place in 
your valuable Periodical, it is at your service. 
I am, Sir, your’s respectfully. 
On the 29th of September last I was requested to attend on a 
cow, the property of a butcher in this town, which, on examination, 
I found to be labouring under a slight attack of pneumonia. My 
usual treatment for that affection was resorted to, and in a few days 
she was approaching convalescence ; when suddenly another and 
very different train of symptoms convinced me that very considera- 
ble pain existed within the stomach and intestines. I had pro- 
duced the desired effect upon the bowels by means of a saline 
cathartic; but now I had profuse diarrhoea to deal with, the dejec- 
tions containing numerous pieces of what I considered to be the 
mucous coat of the alimentary canal. There was not, however, 
the least appearance of blood either upon or ejected with these 
patches of animal matter ; yet the fetor was most intolerable. My 
opinion now was, that there had been a metastasis of the inflamma- 
tion from the respiratory to the digestive organs, and that the re- 
