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A CASE OF PUERPERAL FEVER. 
tine and two of spirit of nitrous ether, without the slightest fa- 
vourable or unfavourable symptom occurring. 
I saw her in December last, and she looks very well ; but the 
urine is in the same state. 
I should indeed be glad if some of your correspondents would 
inform me, through the medium of your valuable journal, whether 
they imagine that the change in the urine was the consequence 
of some internal injury arising from the slip during the dressing 
of her leg. She is now feeding for the butcher. The owner had 
three cows in the wet summer of 1839, from whom there was a 
discharge of urine similarly coloured. Our land is bare, and 
woody. 
A CASE OF PUERPERAL FEVER. 
By Mr. Thomas Walker, Bothley. 
On the 26th of March, 1841, ten a.m., I was requested to at- 
tend a cow, the property of Mr. Pettifor, Sileby. She had calved 
on the previous afternoon without any difficulty, and had eaten 
and drunk well afterwards ; but this morning she was found 
down, and unable to rise. Before my arrival several knowing 
ones had seen her, and pronounced her disease to be “ tail worm 
and the treatment they recommended was to slit the tail at the 
soft space between the bone and the cartilaginous portion at the 
tip of the tail, and tie it up with salt. 
She had made several unsuccessful attempts to rise. I found her 
lying on her left side, with her hind legs stretched out from under 
her, apparently free from pain ; her muzzle dry ; one horn hot, 
the other cold; legs cold, and on pricking the hinder ones with 
a needle she did not evince the slightest pain ; pulse 60, full and 
bounding. A very small quantity of faeces had been voided, of 
a black colour and glossy appearance. She had not been seen to 
pass her urine or to ruminate this morning. 
Treatment . — Bleed until the pulse becomes soft and falters. 
From a gallon to five quarts were abstracted, after which she 
began to pass her urine. 
R Sulph. magnes. Jviij 
Flor. sulph. Jiv 
Nit. potassae, Jj 
Pulv. zingiberis 
Gentianae a a Jss. — M. 
Give in a gallon of gruel. 
R Sinapis Jij 
Acid. acet. dilut. Oss. — M. 
To be well rubbed over the dorsal and lumbar vertebra), and par- 
