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to the fore extremities ; and even the head, eyes, and tongue, be- 
came quite insensible to feeling. The animal died about ten 
o’clock the following morning. 
I shall venture no opinion on this case more than that I have 
seen many cows labouring under the same disease ; and the symp- 
toms in every particular enable me to say that it is what we 
usually term “ puerperal fever.” The only thing strange is, the 
length of time after parturition at which the animal was attacked. 
I may also add, that I have never yet known but one cow which 
survived the attack so long as the present, and that one recovered. 
They have, in every other instance, died within six or eight hours 
after the first appearance of illness. 
INFLUENZA. 
By H. Hutchinson, M.R.C.V.S. 
July 6th, 1850. — I WAS requested, at eight o’clock this morning, 
to visit a half-bred chestnut mare, six years old, fifteen hands 
and a quarter high, the property of a dealer in this town. A week 
previous she was ridden ten miles, it raining rapidly the whole of 
the distance. Since then she has had a slight cough ; fed mode- 
rately, and looked thinner than usual. This morning the owner 
took a horse out of the stable at half-past six o’clock. On his re- 
turn in an hour afterwards he found the stable-door open, and this 
mare shaking violently. When I saw her, the shaking had gone 
off; the skin and extremities felt cold; head down; eyes dull; 
pulse quick, but feeble; mouth hot and moist; throat slightly 
swollen, and sore upon pressure, being the usual symptoms of the 
prevailing epidemic. The horse the owner rode out this morning 
has been unwell with a cough, &c., but had recovered without 
being under medicinal treatment. I gave her a mild tonic ball of 
sulph. ferri, zingib., nit. potass., and resin, and had her throat 
rubbed with the ung. diniod. hydr., with warm clothing to her body 
and bandages to her legs, after being well hand-rubbed. Ordered 
her to be fed with mashes, without hay. 
Eight, P.M. — Appears better, more cheerful, and has eaten 
a mash. Dungs in hard balls, with little of it. Give the tonic 
ball, with two drachms of aloes. 
1th, Eight, A.M. — She has not eaten any thing during the 
night; does not lie down; appears dull; pulse quicker, yet its 
beat does not, to me, denote bleeding. Give the ball without the 
aloes, re-blister throat, and keep her as quiet as possible. 
