ON WOOD-EVIL AND MOOR-ILL. 625 
a case which will best explain my usual method of 
12th, 1836, I was requested to see a cow, four years 
old, belonging to Mr. Richard Ion, a farmer in this neighbour- 
hood. She exhibited the following symptoms : she was breath- 
ing very laboriously, the number of respirations were augmented 
to nearly ninety in a minute; the bowels were also confined ; the 
urine scanty; the appetite bad; the secretion of milk diminished; 
the head protruded ; the nostrils expanded ; the muzzle hot and 
dry; the extremities, &c. above their natural temperature ; and the 
eyes were uncommonly prominent, and displaying an unusually 
bright glassy appearance ; in a word, her whole countenance 
was a picture of extreme suffering. The pulse was also small 
and wiry, and accelerated to upwards of a hundred : there was 
also the peculiar and characteristic stiffness of this disease, ex- 
tending over the whole body, but more particularly, and to a 
greater extent, observable in the anterior parts. The animal 
was also intensely lame in one of her hind legs, but the lameness 
was unaccompanied by any apparent enlargement, heat, or ten- 
derness ; and, shortly after my first visit, it left this limb, and 
immediately attacked the other. I had her driven out a short 
distance, but from the general affection of the muscular system, 
together with her Tameness, it was with great difficulty that she 
could move. 
After this little exercise, I re-examined the pulse, and found 
it strangely increased, so much so that I could scarcely count it. 
I immediately abstracted ten pounds of blood, which had an un- 
usually bright florid appearance. I gave her a purgative drink 
containing the following ingredients : — Aloe Barbadens. 5vi, mag. 
sulph. Jxij, ol. crot. tiglii guttae xvi, pulv. sem. carui 3iij. 
13 th y seven a.m. — The symptoms the same, or rather more 
urgent : the medicine has not operated. I abstracted eight 
pounds more blood, and gave Aloe Barbadens. ^ss, ol. lini ^xij, oh 
crot. tiglii guttae vi, potassae subcarb. 3’iij. 
Eight p.m. — The medicine has operated ; she purges freely, 
but there is no palliation of the other symptoms ; I therefore 
resolved to apply a vesicatory extensively over each side of the 
chest, which was done as soon as the hair was shaved off. 
14/^, ten a.m. — Not in the least degree better. The blister 
had only taken a slight effect ; I therefore repeated it, and ad- 
ministered pulv. digit., ant. tart, aa 3i, pot. nit. 5iij, al. Barb. 3iss: 
and the same dose at night. 
15th. — Something better. Medicine as before. I ordered her 
to be wholly kept on soft food, such as bran mashes, grass, &c. 
1 6th. — Breathing not so hard ; pulse not quite so quick ; the 
VOL. ix. 4 o 
I subjoin 
proceeding. 
On Mav 
