100 INFLAMMATION OF THK UTERUS IN COWS. 
Ovid, and Horace, and Virgil, speak of “ the oppressive weight 
of heavy clouds/’ and of “a gloomy darkness rolling about the 
head of Apollo;” while Virgil refers to “ the vicious air and 
sickly skies.” We repeat, that we are not warranted, as yet, in 
drawing any inferences; but we deem it right to chronicle these 
circumstances. 
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CASES OF INFLAMMATION OF THE UTERUS IN 
COWS. 
By Mr. John Young husband, V.S., Grey stoke, Cumberland. 
Case I. — On the morning of the 11th of March, 1841, I was 
sent for to give my opinion respecting a cow that was supposed to 
have caught cold, or, in the language of the dairyman, to have 
the felon — a term much used in my part of the county for inflam- 
matory complaints in general. 
On examination, the prevailing symptoms were, a pulse quick 
but soft and compressible — eye dull and sunk in its orbit — ears 
and legs cold — skin stiff and not easily moved — appetite gone — 
secretion of milk quite suspended, with a total suppression of 
the lochia, vulgarly called the cleansings — extreme debility, and 
speedy dissolution quite apparent. 
After questioning the owner as to the length of time she had 
been ill, he replied that, for aught he knew, she had continued to 
feed and ruminate until the day before I was sent for. After 
hearing this statement and viewing the above symptoms, I as- 
serted that her illness must have been of a longer date, and gave 
it as my opinion that it was a case of uterine inflammation, and 
that I considered her recovery exceedingly doubtful. 
She being a valuable beast, he was very desirous that I should 
endeavour to save her, and he particularly requested me to bleed 
her, as he considered, in inflammation, any other remedy of little 
use without it. Accordingly, but against my own judgment, 
which I frankly told him, I bled her ; but scarcely had I ab- 
stracted a pint, when I perceived the pulse to falter, and the 
beast to become all over tremulous, with scarcely power to keep 
herself from falling. I immediately closed the orifice, gave her 
a strong stimulant, combined with a small dose of opening medi- 
cine (the bowels at this time being in a lax state), and ordered 
the loins to be well fomented with warm water. 
