794 DROPPING AFTER CALVING SUCCESSFULLY TREATED 
(Poor fellow ! In less than a fortnight he was carried to his 
long home! !) 
A. very singular case occurred a short time ago in my neigh- 
bourhood. Does it point out a new mode of treatment of that 
intractable and almost incurable disease ophthalmia? In the 
present case, the cure was a radical one. 
A celebrated M.D., a great horse-amateur, and fond, withal, 
of a little bit of practice of his own, when opportunity offered, 
had a mare that had frequent and severe attacks of ophthalmia, 
but more particularly in the left eye. 
On the last attack, and when the inflammation was at the 
highest, he determined to scarify the conjunctiva. He was 
everting the lids for that purpose, when, from a sudden motion 
of the head, the lancet passed through the conjunctiva, cornea 
and all, the whole of the aqueous humour escaped, and the eye 
was in a partially collapsed state. 
The doctor considered that he had settled the business ; how- 
ever, to his surprise and gratification, at the expiration of three 
days, the eye had assumed a more healthy appearance, and in a 
few days more the inflammation had entirely subsided, and it 
has not returned. 
A CASE OF DROPPING AFTER CALVING 
SUCCESSFULLY TREATED. 
By Mr. J. A. Hughes, Corndale , Shropshire. 
On the 18th of March in the present year, I attended a cow, 
belonging to Mr. Cornwall, of Dibbury Hall. She had calved 
three days before. 
The cowherd informed me that as he was taking her into the 
cowhouse, the night before, she slipped down, and could not rise 
again. The pulse was 80, hard and full — the heart could easily 
be felt, and beat very strongly — and the bowels were a little con- 
stipated. 
I bled her — gave a cathartic drink, and applied a strong em- 
brocation along the spine. 
19 til . — The purgative has acted well, but the loss of voluntary 
power is the same. The purgative was continued, but with 
some anodyne medicine, and a charge was applied. 
22 d — No better, but she has tried to get up, and dragged herself 
round the cow-house. She was again bled, and the extract of 
belladonna in doses of two drachms, with nitrate of potash, or- 
dered to be given daily. 
24 th . — She is up, but staggers as she endeavours to move 
