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After she had been up some time, I found the pulse from 120 
to 130. She was tolerably full, but not at all swollen : in her ears 
and legs, and all over her, she was warm. The mouth was moist, and 
I may say in its natural state; the eyes not inflamed, and not yel- 
low, but pale : the respiration was too quick, though little more so 
than in other cows, as the weather was then very hot. Her urine 
was and had been most of the time since she was taken ill, of a 
brown colour, not fairly black, and it was now thought not to be 
so black as at first. 
I raked her, and could feel the third stomach, which did not ap- 
pear hard, but full : the dung in the rectum was soft, but had a few 
harder lumps in it. 
As I found she had had a great deal of purgative medicine, I 
felt inclined to go upon the tonic or stimulating plan, and therefore 
gave her two powders (one immediately), each composed of half an 
ounce of ginger, two drachms of gentian, and ten drops of croton oil. 
The other, however, was given in the afternoon. She was then 
considerably better, getting up without much force being used, and 
walking about very well. 
28 th, 8 A.M. — Worse; very weak, and could be hardly got to 
move. Pulse 100 to 120. Her general appearance was not so 
very bad, but there was a peculiarity about the breathing, and a 
great debility. I gave half an ounce of ginger and two drachms 
of gentian ; but at noon she walked round and round very quickly 
seven or eight times, and then fell down and died. 
Examination , four hours after death. The paunch had a small 
wheelbarrow-full of soft food in it. The second stomach con- 
tained very little. The third was not full, but nearly so; what was 
in it was soft, especially towards the centre, and there was no 
pellicle on any of its leaves or any inflammation. The' fourth was 
empty, and it and the other stomachs were apparently in a perfect 
state of health. The large intestines were streaked with black, 
and were blacker than usual throughout their whole extent. A 
place here and there of the small ones had the same colour, but 
not to so great an extent, and contained a quantity of mucus. 
The bladder was full of urine, the colour of porter, not black or 
thick. The liver was little different from its appearance in health, 
except being here and there a little paler, or of a clayey colour. 
The gall-bladder was full of a yellow green bile, as thick as 
treacle : its mucous coat was not inflamed. 
Kidneys . — Each of them weighed 2 lb. 3 oz. Their general ex- 
ternal appearance on the surrounding adipose matter being re- 
moved, was of a dark mottled colour, the blacker and the lighter 
colour being of nearly an equal extent. The deeper streaks and 
