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covery of my patient was at best very doubtful. My treatment 
was changed to the administration of opiates, vegetable astringents, 
demulcents, and carminatives. I should have stated that there was 
no fever whatever, but rather evidence of exhaustion, a circum- 
stance which 1 confess somewhat surprised me. This course of 
treatment was continued for four or five days without in the least 
altering the symptoms. I now doubted if the matter discharged 
was really the mucous coat of the intestines or not, and for the 
first time conjectured whether the animal had not met with and 
eaten some intestines of another animal. On washing and mi- 
nutely examining some portions of this unknown substance, I be- 
came quite satisfied of two things ; viz., that it was decaying ani- 
mal matter that came away, and that it was not what 1 had hitherto 
supposed it to be. I consequently determined upon trying the 
effect of powerful cathartics and stimulants, to endeavour to empty 
the stomach and intestinal canal of whatever they might contain. 
In this way, to my great surprise and satisfaction, I succeeded in 
taking away at least a moderate-sized pailful of undecomposed in- 
testines, which I subsequently ascertained to belong to an ox and 
three sheep which the boy had lost from the yard about a fortnight 
before, whilst this cow and some others were in from the field for 
the purpose of milking. I measured one piece of this discharged 
gut, and found it to be more than ten feet in length. 
I had now simply to restore the exhausted powers of my patient, 
which was easily done by a few doses of tonic medicine and a 
light nutritious diet ; after which all was well. 
I forgot to state that the cow was about half gone in calf. 
South Molton, Devon, 
14th Feb, 1850. 
CASES OF UTERO-GESTATION IN COWS. 
By Mr. Tatam. 
Being a constant reader of your monthly periodical, The 
Veterinarian, I perceive several cases of protracted utero- 
gestation in cows. I am a pupil with Mr. Joseph Clark, Horn- 
castle, and trust at some future period to become a member of the 
Veterinary College. 
A few months back, Mr. Edward Curtis, farmer, Kirkby Bain, 
called to ask Mr. Clark’s opinion respecting a cow whose period 
of gestation had expired, and in whom the usual symptoms of 
