STONES IN THE STOMACH OB’ A COW. 
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hurried and chafed a good deal by bulls amongst them. She 
was rather unwell after she came home, and had a cough, and, in 
a week after, aborted, and continued to cough a little, at times, 
after that; but she was turned out to feed, and soon looked in 
perfect health, and gained condition fast. 
On the 16th May following, the owners were loading some hay 
in the field where she was, and she was then lying down, and 
looked as well as usual. In a short time she began to cough, 
then got up and walked about, and coughed more violently, 
and immediately a quantity of blood was seen to issue from her 
mouth and nostrils. She then wandered about for nearly a hun- 
dred yards, and fell down and died. 
On looking over the pasture, a deal of blood was observed on it. 
I opened her a short time afterwards, and found a great portion 
of her lungs very emphysematous, produced, most likely, by ex- 
cessive coughing. There were four or five small abscesses in 
them. In other places there were indurated tumours. In the 
trachea, and some of the bronchial tubes, and about the nostrils, 
there was a little blood. In the rumen, near to the cardiac por- 
tion, there was about a gallon of coagulated blood. All other 
parts were sound. 
Observations . — The lungs being diseased probably produced 
the coughing, and which ruptured a bloodvessel, and so caused 
her death. No doubt the blood found in her rumen had been 
coughed up from the lungs and swallowed, and the remainder 
from the lungs forced through the nostrils and mouth. She must 
have lost a great deal of blood, as but little was in the vessels, 
and her death was sudden. 
A LARGE QUANTITY OF STONES FOUND IN THE 
SECOND STOMACH OF A COW. 
By the same . 
In the month of May last, Mr. Jones, a butcher of this town, 
killed a fat cow, and in her second stomach was found ten pounds 
weight of stones, varying in weight from two ounces and a half 
downward. Some were two inches and a half long, but the 
greater number were flat, as if from attrition. The person from 
whom Mr. Jones purchased her said she fed and came on very 
well ; and so she did most of the time with Mr. Jones : but still, 
he thought she did not feed so well as she ought to have done. 
She took the bull, and, soon after, he thought she fed better for a 
time ; but afterwards she was at a stand still, and he killed her, 
and then found the large quantity of stones. The stomach was 
literally filled. 
