INFLAMMATION OF THE HEART. 
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tion will prove too concise and limited to interpret the whole of 
the symptoms connected with breathing; I, therefore, need not 
apologise for their length. On subsequent perusal I observe their 
deficiency, but a periodical must be their excuse. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE LINING MEMBRANE OF THE 
LEFT VENTRICLE OF THE HEART IN A COW. 
Bp Mr. Joseph Carlisle, V.S., Wigton, Cumberland. 
On the 19th of February I was requested to attend a cow, 
the property of Joseph Hodge, Esq., of High Moorhouse, near 
this town, that was supposed by the cowkeeper to have the epi- 
demic. So alarming was her appearance, that he felt confident 
she would presently die if no relief was afforded. 
On arriving, I found the cow standing in the straw-yard, 
apparently suffering intense pain. I questioned the keeper re- 
specting the case, and the length of time from the first appear- 
ance of the disease. He informed me that during the night she 
had eaten all her allowance of hay, and voided her excrement 
with no observable alteration in quantity or consistence ; and 
that it was not until he entered the cow-house for the purpose 
of milking, at eight o’clock, and about an hour after the cow had 
been fed with some hay, that she was observed to be amiss. 
Symptoms . — The animal was standing in the straw-yard foam- 
ing from the mouth, and with a copious discharge of mucus of 
a ropy consistency proceeding from the nostrils. The respiration 
was laborious, and accompanied by a loud and singular noise in 
the lungs — a kind of indistinct whistling. The action of the 
heart resembled the clapper of a water-wheel, and completely 
rendered my endeavours inadequate to judge of its motion. The 
pulsation at the jaw was ungovernable, and congested almost to 
a rapid but violent tremor. There was a singular motion of the 
ears, sometimes pointed forward with great quickness, and at 
intervals lying quite flat and relaxed. The abdomen was tense 
and inflated to a considerable degree. The eyes presented a 
peculiar aspect — the depressor muscles appearing very much 
contracted, and drawing the eye quite into the inferior portion of 
the orbit, leaving a considerable space between the eyeball and 
upper ridge of the orbit. She was unconscious of surrounding 
objects. The mucous membrane was pale, but the bloodvessels 
on their surface considerably injected. There was a singular 
spasmodic action of the masseter and buccinator muscles, accom- 
