PUERPERAL FEVER. 
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1835, she calved, and on Saturday following she seemed to be 
rather uneasy, and quite off feeding. I was sent about 
5 o’clock, p.m., and found the following 
Symptoms. — Pulse 95, small, wiry, regular ; rumen very much 
distended ; the ears, horns, and legs, I was told, had been alter- 
nately cold and hot ; they were cold when I arrived, and the 
cow down ; breathing very laboriously. 
Treatment. — I took away about nine quarts of blood, gave 
one pound of Epsom salts, 3j gentian, 3 ss tinct. croton, ordered 
injections frequently, plenty of gruel to be poured in, and warm 
fomentations to be applied for two hours. 
11 o’clock, p.m. — The symptoms considerably worse ; pulse 
110, but fuller than at the former bleeding. Abstract four quarts 
more : she appears very weak. 
18/A, 6 a.m. — The general symptoms are little altered; the 
breathing less difficult : give half a pound of salts. 
10 a.m. — Bowels still constipated; pulse 95 ; give half a 
pound of salts; ^ij tinct. croton; 3 iij ginger. 
2 p.m. — Little alteration; repeat the last dose. 
8 p.m. — Ditto, ditto, omit the croton. 
19/A, 7 a.m. — Pulse increased 115; bleed again, four quarts 
more ; bowels have not yielded ; give half bottle of linseed oil, 
adding ^ij tinct. croton. 
10 a .m. — She appears better; has got upon her legs: give 
salts and croton as before. 
8 p.m. — The symptoms are again worse ; pulse increased ; 
eye w 7 ild ; breathing more difficult ; bled once more, taking about 
five quarts. After this bleeding she heaved at the flanks most 
uncommonly, so much so, that the owner expressed his disap- 
probation at my having bled her at all. Give the salts and croton 
as before. I bear abuse patiently from the owner of an animal, 
but I cannot endure dictation, and never allow it. 
20/A, 7 a.m. — She is decidedly better this morning, and a 
small quantity of very hard dung came away with the injections ; 
no medicine given ; pulse 80 ; she eats a little grass, and drinks 
of her own accord. 
11 a.m. — The bowels are not opened ; give a quarter of a pound 
of salts. 
8 p.m. — She is purging very freely ; bran mashes and plenty 
of gruel ordered. 
2 a.m. — She is purging still ; I have now great hopes of her 
recovery. I have now got little to do, as she appears so much 
better. 
21s/. — I leave a little tonic medicine, but my services are little 
more required. I may remark of this cow, that she never gave 
