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any milk afterwards worth mentioning; but the owner lately 
informed me that she fed uncommonly well, and was sold to the 
butcher. 
CASE III. 
This was a cow belonging to James Haig and Son, Esquires, of 
S unbury distillery. She calved on the 20th of March, 1836, and 
on the following six days afterwards her milk was diminished in 
quantity, and she gave up feeding; two circumstances, of them- 
selves, which made the servant justly suppose that there was 
something wrong . 
March 2 6th. — I was sent off to see her about 7 o’clock, p.m., 
and found the symptoms as follow : viz. pulse 85, hard, small, 
but regular ; the roots of the horns remarkably hot ; ears and 
extremities cold ; eye glazed and restless ; breathing quickened ; 
rumen distended, and the cow “down” but, with this difference, 
that she was able to get up again. 
1 tried to bleed her, but could only extract about three quarts ; 
it gushed out rapidly when the wounds were made, but stopped 
in a fewmoments. There was no appearance of constipation ; but, 
considering the former two cases, I gave her one pound of Epsom 
salts, some injections, ordered her to be well fomented, and left 
her about ten o’clock. 
27 thy 7a.m. — Patient worse; pulse 95, but softer than last 
night ; horns, ears, and extremities as before ; breathing more 
difficult; she looks anxiously round to her sides. Notwithstand- 
ing having given her the salts, no passage has been procured. 
I gave half a pound more, and took about five quarts of blood ; 
I could not get any more. 
11 a.m. — P rofessor Dick saw her : symptoms the same ; no 
medicine given. 
2 p.m — No alteration ; give another half-pound of salts, and 
^ij tinct. croton. 
6 p.m. — No better; still constipated ; half a pound of salts ; 
no croton. 
28^/?, 6 a.m. — Breathing more freely; pulse 90; swelling 
reduced. I gave no medicine, because in back raking, the faeces 
in the rectum which I brought away were softer than before. 
9 a.m. — Little alteration; give half a pound of salts, Jj 
gentian. 
3 p.m. — Purging freely ; takes a little bran mash and hay; 
breathing better ; no swelling. 
8 p.m. — Purging continues ; order a small mash to be given. 
9 a.m. — She is materially improved, but weak; purging not 
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