CEPHALIC AFFECTION IN A COW. 
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Moorcroft, in this town, was taken suddenly ill in March last, at 
9 o’clock, a.m. Mr. M., on finding her in this state, immediately 
came for my father : he not being at home at the time, an hour 
had almost elapsed before he saw her. On going into the cow- 
house, my father’s attention was first drawn to her biting the wall 
before her, and also the partition, and separating herself from 
another cow. There was also a great discharge of watery faeces, 
of a very foetid smell ; the ears, horns, and extremities very cold ; 
the pulse 75, and wiry ; the eyes fixed ; the iris much dilated ; 
dimness of the cornea, or, in fact, the loss of the power of vision : 
a great discharge of saliva from the mouth and nostrils. 
She was first bled; but she had not lost more than three pints 
of blood when she began to stagger, and the orifice was closed. 
She then had administered to her sulph. mag. 5 X U> amrnon. 
sesq. carb. §ss, pulv. anis. sem. q. s., aq. tepidae Ojss. 
1 o'clock , p.m. — We saw her again : she appeared somewhat 
better ; but still biting the wall a little. Mr. M. had put some 
clothes upon her, but she pulled them off immediately. She is 
now recovering her sight*. 
3, p.m. — Still better; pulse 65, and soft. 
5, p.m. — Appears a little dull : give spt. etheris nit. §j. 
7, p.m. — She now appears much better, and has a desire for 
food. She ate a bran mash, and also drunk a little thin gruel. 
Pulse 65, and stronger. 
9, p.m. — We went to see her, and found her lying down and 
ruminating. Pulse natural. The following morning she gave 
her milk as usual. 
What was the cause of this? was it atmospheric influence, or 
some poisonous substance accidentally taken into the stomach 
along with the food ? Perhaps you will be kind enough to give 
me your opinion concerning the same, and you will much oblige 
Your’s, &c. 
[I do not think that we can trace this disease to any atmospheric 
influence, or to any poisonous ingesta. It was some undefined 
cerebral affection, about the nature and cause of which we 
cannot arrive at any satisfactory conclusion. — Y.] 
* I should have stated that the cow continued to purge a great deal until 
about 5 r.M. ; but on the following day the discharge was almost natural. 
She has remained well to the present time. 
