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CONGESTION OF THE BRAIN IN A CALF. 
The respiration was, at times, a little increased, but that was 
of no great moment or duration. There was a spot in the fold higher 
than the rest, and to which he generally walked, and would then 
stand in an attitude of watchfulness and defiance. We drove a 
number of fowls to him, but he soon dashed among them and 
dispersed them. His dung was hard and buttony. We at length 
got him confined in a small hovel, in which was a manger, but 
he soon fetched it down with his feet. Here we also put a pail- 
ful of water to him, but he only dashed his nose into it, and soon 
upset it with his feet, and then forced his nose under it. 
Towards one o’clock, p.m., he was, rather unexpectedly, found 
dead. 
Being much engaged, no post-mortem examination was made. 
CONGESTION OF THE BRAIN IN A CALF TWO 
MONTHS OLD. 
By the same. 
April 10, 1841. — As soon as I got into the yard to examine 
the second case of rabies, I was desired to see a two-months-old 
rearing calf that was said to be dying. I found the owner trying 
to bleed her, but with little effect, as she died immediately. 
The particulars of the case are these : — On the night before, it 
took its food as usual ; but this morning the servant thought it 
was not so well, as it would not take its meal, and looked very 
heavy about its head, and hung it down and frothed at the mouth. 
Mrs. D. then gave her some gin with an egg in it, and in an hour 
afterwards it was heard to be knocking about the place in which 
it was. Soon afterwards the door flew open, and she came out 
and turned round many times, and in the scuffle got into amixen- 
hole, but was soon got out, and tried to be bled. 
Feeling anxious to open her on account of the two yearlings, 
I did so an hour after she died. I could find nothing but great 
congestion in the meninges of the brain, and a slight inflam- 
mation about the nostrils, larynx, and lining membrane of the 
trachea. There was no froth in the trachea or bronchial tubes, 
nor were the lungs in the least diseased. All other parts were 
beautifully sound ; and it is my opinion that death was caused 
by a determination of blood to the brain, and probably increased 
by the tight ligature on the neck in trying to bleed her. 
