200 CASES OF OPEN JOINT AND PUERPERAL FEVER. 
Cask II. 
January 20 th, 1842, I was called to a young horse, the pro- 
perty of John Barra tt. Esq., of Winterton, that had been kicked 
by a po'ny (turned up on account of the frost) over the hock 
joint. I found the synovia flowing freely. Pulse 60, and the 
horse very irritable and full of pain. I gave him a cooling 
draught composed of sp. of nitrous aether, laudanum, emetic 
tartar, and digitalis, and bound up the wound ; having applied 
a powder of myrrh, alum, and red bol. 
21 st. — Pulse 60, softer — pain nearly gone — synovia still 
escaping. Repeat the dressing, lotion, and draught. With now 
and then a slight access of fever, and increased discharge of 
synovia, the case went on well until the 8th of February, when 
the orifice was closed, and the patient apparently sound. 
Case III. 
A cow, in good condition, the property of Mr. Walker, of 
Whitton, was attacked, on Saturday, October 2, 1841, with 
that much to be dreaded disease, puerperal fever. She had 
calved on the preceding evening, and, to all appearance, was 
going on well ; but, on the owner going to her about eleven 
o’clock in the morning, he found her staggering, and she would 
not yield any milk — the pulse oppressed — a vacant stare, but the 
eyes sometimes drawn obliquely. I bled her freely until she 
dropped, and gave her a cooling purging medicine, with spirit 
of nitrous sether. I also ordered the application of gentle friction 
to the udder, and that the milk should frequently be attempted 
to be drawn. 
7 p.m. — She cannot rise — pulse 70 — her head continually on 
her side — she moans very much — no appetite — bowels consti- 
pated. Another purging and carminative drink, and her back 
and loins well rubbed with sp. tereb. et liq. ammon. She began 
gradually improve from this period until the 4th, when she 
was found up and grazing. She had been out in the field from 
the time of her first attack, but with good straw tinker her and 
over her. She was driven home, about a mile. She then had 
her usual drink, and ate a little hay and moist bran with 
linseed. 
6th. — She was better — the bowels freely open — pulse 40. 
7th . — She yielded about three quarts of milk, but she eats 
sparingly. Tonic medicine was then ordered to be given, and 
on the 10th she was dismissed apparently well. 
[We insert these two communications, not altogether on account of 
their originality, but ort account of the plain, straightforward, 
and successful mode of treatment which they narrate. — Y.] 
