528 RUPTURED BLOODVESSEL IN THE LUNGS OF A COW. 
desire to examine the cow after death, although at a considerable 
distance from Crediton, provided word was sent to inform him 
when she was dead. A few days afterwards word was sent to 
that effect, and the following were the 
Post-mortem appearances . — On opening the cavity of the chest, 
a sudden rush of water ensued ; and which, it is computed, must 
have amounted to four or five gallons of muddy-coloured serosity. 
The lung was collapsed to three-fourths of its size. The pleura 
pulmonalis and costalis,and likewise the pericardium, were studded 
with lymphatic tubercles, some of which were in a state of sup- 
puration. The tubercles did not extend into the substance of the 
pulmonary tissue, but were superficially confined to the pleurae. 
The right lung was normal, neither was there any effusion into 
the pericardium. All the alimentary canal was in a sound state, 
except a small portion of the rumen, which was adherent to the 
diaphragm, and in which was found the sole cause of the malady 
(viz. a stocking needle, making its way through the midriff into the 
paunch, with its point inclining toward the off flank. The needle 
is enclosed to the Editor in this letter. Now, how did the needle 
get there? In the first place, it is a very common custom for 
dairymaids to stick needles and pins in their milking-caps or 
bonnets ; and I have no doubt it was either by accident dropped 
out and taken in with the food ; obstructed, perhaps, in the gullet, 
and thus penetrated to where it was found, mechanically irritating 
the pleural investments and exciting subacute inflammation and its 
consequences. It might be accidentally introduced externally, 
from the animal lying on it, or from the milkmaid leaning or 
rubbing her head against the side of the cow during the milking 
of the animal. All this, however, is speculative. It is, however, 
well known, that pointed bodies occasionally find their way out 
very remote from the part where they were introduced. There 
is a similar case recorded in the April number of The Veteri- 
narian for the year 1836, new series, No. 40, by Mr. W. Young, 
Svvinton, of Old Monkland, N. B. 
A CASE OF RUPTURED BLOODVESSEL IN THE 
LUNGS OF A COW. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, V . S., Whitchurch. 
On the 23d March, 1841, Messrs. Litler and Cooke, butchers, 
of this town, purchased a two-years-old calf heifer at Wrexham 
fair. She was brought home with some others, a distance of six- 
teen miles, the same day; and, during the way home she was 
