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ON FOUL, RED, OR BLACK WATER. 
the effects produced, nor at the sudden recovery of our patients 
the moment we are able to accomplish a restoration of the secre- 
tions by depletion or purgatives. 
The treatment which I have for several years pursued, and by 
which I have generally succeeded in nine cases out of ten, is 
bleeding (whether the animal be down or not), until a very sen- 
sible effect is produced upon the arterial system — purgatives of 
Epsom salts and sulphur, six ounces of the former and four of the 
latter, to which I generally add four drachms of the carbonate of 
ammonia, and give it to her in five or six quarts of water gruel, 
repeating the dose in four or five hours. I likewise apply a 
strong stimulant upon the loins every two or three hours, from 
which I think I derive a twofold benefit, viz. counter-irritation 
and frequent attempts in the animal, during that irritation, to rise. 
I occasionally have the loins smoothed with a hot iron, which I 
also think is beneficial ; but, be it as it will, in the number of 
cases I have mentioned I have been successful, and have had 
them upon their legs in twenty-four hours. I must not omit to 
state, that I prohibit all food of a solid kind, and allow its 
guarded use alone for many days afterwards. 
ON FOUL, RED, OR BLACK WATER. 
By Mr. Cox, of Leek. 
I have selected the two following cases out of many others of 
this disease, for it is but one disease assuming different appear- 
ances, or different stages of the same malady. 
Case I. — I was requested to visit a cow that had been voiding 
black water three days. The first symptom that attracted my 
attention was the violent palpitation or beating of the heart. I 
could hear it at a considerable distance, and the pulsations were 
140 per minute. The appetite and milk were completely gone — 
the staring of the coat and the grinding of the teeth bespoke the 
danger of my patient, and the urine had been black from the 
first appearance of illness. There was no constipation of the 
bowels, for the owner had sufficiently purged her. Ere I could 
administer any medicine she was dead. 
Four hours after death I examined her. The lungs, liver, in- 
testines, and kidneys were in a comparatively healthy state. 
They were little different from what they are in slaughtered cattle. 
The heart had a peculiar flabby appearance — the animal might 
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