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PUERPERAL OR MILK FEVER IN CATTLE. 
25th . — Dung quite moist; and feeds well. The tonics were 
continued until the 27th, when she was struck off the sick list, 
and has remained well ever since. 
The patient never lay down until the last two days of her 
illness. 
Remarks . — In the beginning this case was decidedly an attack 
upon the lungs. But the strange action — deranged function of 
of the heart — irregular, intermittent, wiry pulse , and rising 
to the number of 160 per minute — what must we call this? 
I must confess I never saw any thing like it before. To a cer- 
tainty the heart was highly excited. Could it be from inflam- 
mation ? Inflammation of the heart is often an obscure disease 
in the human subject. But whether this is the case with the 
same disease in the horse I am not prepared to say, as I have 
not met with many cases of it. Within the last twelve months 
I have seen two cases which I considered inflammation of the 
heart, and one at the Veterinary College last January twelve 
months : two of them were brought on by over-exertion, and 
the other followed a violent catarrhal affection. The leading 
symptoms were these: — a powerful beating from within ; a stroke 
vibrating through the body, and peculiarly evident at the flanks; 
breathing not so much affected as in pneumonia ; the pulse at jaw 
quick ; ears and extremities cold ; membrane of nose, in all three 
cases, of a purple hue ; great anxiety, and yet an eagerness and 
alertness, if I may so call it, in the horse’s appearance. Two of 
the patients died, and one recovered. 
Perhaps you may give us your opinion. 
PUERPERAL, OR MILK FEVER IN CATTLE. 
By Mr. E. Friend, Walsall. 
Gentlemen, 
The perusal of every fresh number of your publication im- 
presses me with a feeling of gratitude to all who are concerned 
in supporting it. The first day of every month, at least, finds me 
with an anxious wish to contribute something as my mite towards 
furthering the good end it is intended to promote, viz., the ad- 
vancement of sound veterinary science, and which end, I, for one, 
believe it to be well calculated to effect. “ I pity the man who 
can travel from Dan to Beersheba,and say. It is all barren ;” and 
I confess that I never rise from reading The Veterinarian 
without having gained some new idea, or confirmed some precon- 
ceived opinion. 
Having before troubled you with some remarks on the dis- 
ease which forms the subject of the following article, 1 ought, 
perhaps, to apologize on this occasion ; but if the importance of 
