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ACUTE DIAHKHCEA IN A COW 
gruel with Read's patent syringe. Let plenty of thin gruel be 
given by the mouth every four hours. Give also a bran mash 
twice a-day, with a small allowance of sweet hay. Keep her quiet 
and well clothed. 
27th , Eight o’clock a.m. — The purging less profuse; the ani- 
mal more lively ; pulse 52 ; legs and ears warmer : had eaten part 
of the mashes, and drunk a pailful of gruel. Administer the 
usual astringent powder for cattle in oatrneal gruel. 
28th . — Much improved. Repeat the medicine. 
29th . — Quite convalescent. 
During the last season catarrhal affections have prevailed to an 
unusual extent, particularly amongst young cattle, in some of the 
parks of Dunrobin. The most common symptoms were cough, 
heaving at the flanks, and rumination suspended. In a few cases 
the disease extended from the nasal cavities to the larynx and 
bronchial tubes, and in two cases it proceeded to inflammation of 
the lungs, one of which proved fatal. The treatment generally 
consisted of bleedings, with aperient and fever medicine. A 
change of pasture proved an effectual preventive. These cases 
occurred in June and July, during which time the nights were 
invariably wet and cold. 
About the same period I had four cases of puerperal fever in 
cows. They were all in high condition at calving. Three of them 
died, and one was slaughtered. The first that was attacked at 
the commencement of her illness was subjected to the most active 
antiphlogistic treatment. In six days she got on her legs, rumi- 
nation returned, and 1 left the case. Two days afterwards, how- 
ever, I was again requested tt) see her. I found her labouring 
under disease of the lungs, and, although the usual remedies were 
applied, she died in less than twenty-four hours. Post-mortem 
appearances presented the lungs inflamed, and in various parts 
mortification had commenced. All the other viscera appeared to 
be healthy. 
A CASE OF HEMIPLEGIA IN A HORSE. 
By Mr. W. A. Wilson, E.*$., Carlisle. 
On the 15th of January, I was requested by Adjutant Rice, of 
the 23d Fusileers, to visit a grey horse of his, which was in a very 
dangerous state. On seeing the patient, I was at first inclined to 
consider the case as one of acute indigestion ; but a little further 
investigation convinced me of the true nature of the case. 
