ON PUERPERAL FEVER IN CATTLE. 
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CASE V. 
Was a cow, belonging to Mrs. Swift Aldridge, seen first on the 
22d Jan. This also appeared a very hopeless case; but she re- 
covered under the same treatment, in the same manner, and se- 
creting afterwards her usual quantity of milk. 
The eyes of both these cows were very much affected: the first 
appeared quite blind. 
My next case was a cow belonging to a poor widow, residing 
in Walsall. This cow I did not see until evening, some time 
after she first fell ; and she had had medicine of some kind given 
to her. I found her in a most deplorable state, both as to dis- 
ease and want of comfort. Medicine seemed unavailing in this 
case, and she died the next morning. 
On a post-mortem examination, I found the first three stomachs 
inflamed, but not so much so as in many other cases I have seen. 
No decided inflammation of the uterus; the intestines but little 
affected ; the gall-bladder full. I was anxious to see the brain 
and spinal marrow; but, unfortunately, 1 found that in chopping 
off’ the horns, they had quite divided the brain, and thus destroyed 
it for a perfect examination. The dura mater was highly injected ; 
but I did not detect any decided alteration in the substance of 
the brain itself. I took out a portion of the spinal marrow, and 
subjected it to maceration for a short time in water. It became 
a soft homogeneous mass, and the bloodvessels running along 
the centre were gorged with blood. 
These, gentlemen, are the cases I promised in my paper of 
March last. I must now beg leave to make a few remarks on 
Mr. Wilson’s article in the Nov. Number, as freely as you have 
allowed him to do on mine. 
Mr. Wilson, in a most extraordinary preface, says that “ he 
will not admit this new theory, advanced by some London-taught 
veterinary surgeons, because he cannot comprehend it. Really, 
Mr. W., if I have furnished you with an argument, it is too much 
to expect that I should furnish you with a comprehension also. 
And 1 must say, that I admire the excessive modesty of a young 
man, who can so sneeringly condemn an opinion, submitted with- 
out affectation for the benefit of the profession generally, on the 
strength of the experience derived from one post-mortem exami- 
nation # (especially where the examiner had not the opportunity 
of observing the living symptoms in that particular case), and of 
setting up his comprehension as the standard by which we are all 
* See Veterinarian for November, where he acknowledges, that till 
this case , which occurred in August, he hacl no evidence to prove that I was 
wrong . 
