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a month previously. When put out to grass, she was seen to 
fight very much with one of her companions. In a few days 
after this she began to go very stiff, and give over eating, except 
that she would mumble a little warm mash. The owner, think- 
ing that she had taken cold from being exposed to the weather, 
and remembering the combat she had had with her companion, 
neglected to call in any medical assistance until six days after 
the first appearance of the disorder, when he sent for me. I 
bled her largely, and repeatedly rubbed her spine with a strong 
liquid blister, and likewise clystered her occasionally with a de- 
coction of marsh mallows, with a little opium dissolved in it. 
Although the jaws were firmly clenched together, I could ad- 
minister any quantity of gruel or medicine by means of an elder 
pipe fourteen inches long, with a bladder attached to it. Sulph. 
magnes. 3xij ; ol. lini, half a pint ; ol. croton. 30 drops ; ext. 
belladonna, §ss, were given every ten hours ; but she died on the 
third day from my first seeing her, without any purging being 
produced, or abatement in the symptoms. 
ON RED-WATER IN COWS. 
Bij Mr, J. A. Hughes, Aston Corvedale, Salop, 
In the month of October last I attended a cow for an ulcer in 
one of the hind feet, and in the treatment of which she slipped 
down. About three days afterwards I was sent for on account 
of symptoms of red- water that had appeared. The pulse was 
quite regular, the respiration tranquil, and the faces having their 
usual character. 
The urine was thick, and of a dirty black colour when first 
caught; but when left to stand, changing to a dirty pink hue, de- 
posing a considerable sediment. This sediment did not assume 
the slighteskappearance of clots, but when the supernatant fluid 
was poured off, appeared like dirty blood, but with no inclination 
to congeal. 
I first administered some mild aperient medicine in order to get 
the bowels into a somewhat relaxed state, and then gave, every 
morning on four successive days, half an ounce of sulphuric acid 
in milk. Not the least effect seemed to have been produced. 
The following medicine was then administered on two morn- 
ings : — Tr. opii et sp. eeth. nit. a a §i. This produced no effect. 
Hyd. chlor. et pulv. opii a a 3i were given on three consecutive 
days, but the urine continued the same. Four ounces of alum 
and six grains of powdered cantharides were then tried during the 
same length of time, and, after that, four ounces of spirit of turpen- 
