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small portion of bran-mash given to her, if she will take it; also 
some gruel containing a free allowance of treacle; also to be kept 
warm, and repeatedly milked during the night. 
30 th, Nine o'clock A.M. — 'This morning I found my patient 
upon her feet, but evidently in a very weak, tottering condition : 
she moves her limbs as though she controlled them but partially. 
The milk is yielded freely, and the udder is soft ; her appetite is 
very poor indeed ; she dungs and urinates freely, and she drinks 
her gruel very well. To be fed upon mash and boiled corn for a 
few days; her limbs to be repeatedly hand-rubbed, and her body 
covered with a dry rug. The day following the animal was still 
more improved, so much so, indeed, that I did not consider any 
further attendance necessary. 
Case V. 
May 8/A, 1846. — Was requested, about ten o’clock A.M., to 
attend upon a cow, the property of a gentleman named Brook, re- 
siding at Marsh, situated about a mile westward of Huddersfield. 
History, 8jc. — The cow I am requested to see is of the short-horn 
breed, and of a spare conformation. She calved yesterday at noon, 
her fifth calf, and the parturient process was gone through without 
any difficulty ; she continued to yield her milk freely, and to eat her 
food with zest until this morning, when she was found to fail in 
both particulars. A short time ago she exhibited symptoms of 
weakness in her hind limbs; “ her body,” said the owner, “ had a 
swinging motion ; her legs trembled, and she soon afterwards fell 
with violence upon the ground.” 
Present State. 
1. Pulse 64 per minute, soft and round. 
2. Respirations 15 per minute. 
3. The animal is laid upon her left side; she holds up her head, 
and presents what to an ordinary observer would appear a cheerful 
aspect ; a closer inspection, however, detects a peculiar glassiness 
of the eyes. 
4. The surface of the body is cool, the nose is moist, and the 
mouth is also most. 
5. She occasionally attempts to rise upon her feet, but the hind 
limbs are powerless; she manages, however, to drag herself for- 
ward upon her knees. 
6. The udder is a little harder than natural, and the milk is 
freely yielded. 
7. Occasionally she grinds her teeth, and gives utterance to low 
moans. 
8. She has not dunged or urinated since early this morning. 
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