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are estimated to have been reduced in value five per cent., which 
is much below' the London estimate, and dairy-cows having newly 
calved are calculated to have lost thirty per cent, of their original 
value. Wm. Sewell, 
July 1 7, 1841. Professor, Royal Veterinary College. 
A CASE OF PHREN1T1S IN A COW. 
By Mr. J. Tait, Portsoy . 
Dear Sir, — Should you think the following case worthy of 
insertion in The V et e Ri n a r i a n , it is at your service. I am 
truly glad to see The Veterinarian of this month so much 
improved, there is no power, I trust, that can now arrest its 
course. 
Dec. 2d, 1841. — A poor man came from a distance for me to 
see his cow, that had been ill two days : this morning, however, 
she was much worse. He told me that she had seen a rat run up 
the wall of the cowhouse, and that she was now " clean mad” 
for she was like to break down the house by sprawling upon the 
walls, foaming at the mouth, and darting at any person that 
went near her. 
He had removed her from the house into a shed. He said he 
would like me to see her, but he feared that she would be dead 
before I could get to her. However, I went and saw the cow, 
and, sure enough, she was mad, for I never beheld an animal in 
such a state. She was tied by the horns with cart-ropes, and 
made fast to a post in the shed, round and round which she was 
going, tearing up every thing she could get at, bellowing, foam- 
ing at the mouth, and darting at every person that she saw, 
until, occasionally, she would throw herself down quite exhausted. 
She appeared to me to be labouring under inflammation of the 
brain ; therefore the next time that she fell down 1 made the by- 
standers secure her until I bled her to the amount of ten quarts. 
We then blindfolded her, and allowed her to get up, which she 
did. The least noise made her spring forward and bellow : a 
strong cathartic was given, and the cow was allowed to remain 
where she was for the night. 
3d . — She seems better, for she allows me to handle her ; but she 
is terribly agitated at the least noise, and we can hear the heart 
beating loudly, 100 in a minute. The medicine has operated, 
and the cow has drunk a pailful of meal and water. 1 left a few r 
powders of gentian and ginger to be given her twice in the day. 
4th. — The man has come to say that the cow is nearly well 
again. * 
12///. — I he cow is quite well, hut sadly reduced in condition. 
