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ment was to be lost. The patient was still standing, and, seeming 
to be conscious of her peril, suffered us to do as we pleased. I 
placed two keepers on each side, holding the corners of a blanket. 
I drew down the fore legs so far as I could, but the muzzle made 
no progress. I was enabled, however, to introduce my hand by a 
little bending of the neck, and, using some force, I pushed the leg 
back, and lifted the head over it. It came forward with a kind of 
spring, and, in less than three minutes afterwards, I had drawn the 
foetus fairly out, and it was received in the blanket and laid on the 
straw. Nearly a minute passed and there was not a motion. 
“ He is lost!” I exclaimed; when immediately came a spasmodic 
inspiration. “ Oh ! Oh !” said I, “ then we may save you yet.” 
I set the four keepers to rub him all over with pieces of flannel. 
He w T as thoroughly cleansed and well warmed, and, in a quarter 
of an hour, he was sucking a finger introduced into his mouth. We 
fed him with cow’s milk warmed, for the mother would not suffer 
him to come near her, nor would she permit us to touch her udder. 
The day passed on : a nipple bottle was got for him — he was seve- 
ral times fed with a little warm milk, and he helped us as well as 
he could. No evacuation took place during the day. 
20th . — The meconium was discharged during the night. It was 
a well-formed rounded piece, weighing fully two ounces. It had 
the appearance of compressed and hardened bile, and it had a slight 
bitter taste. No other faeces have passed. The mother will not 
suffer him to touch her, or even to come near her. Occasionally, 
however, she lowers her muzzle, and seems to try to recognize 
him, and she takes very great care not to run against him. We 
have bought for him a cow that had calved a little more than a 
month, — we could not at that time get one that had recently 
calved — and we fed him on her milk, warmed. 
21 si . — He has had an evacuation, and of a more fluid character 
than w r e wish, and he has purged three or four times : otherwise 
he seems to be in perfect health — gallops merrily round his house, 
and teazes his mother continually. Nature has evidently taught 
him where his proper nutriment is to be found ; but she will not 
suffer him to touch the udder, although she takes a great deal of 
care not to hurt him while she is getting out of his way. Boil 
his milk, and mix a little prepared chalk with it. 
22^. — The purging continues. He is not griped or uneasy, 
but as merry and bounceable as can be imagined. Still boil the 
milk — add more prepared chalk to it, and put a grain of opium in 
one of the doses. 
23 d . — The purging has stopped. He had no evacuation until 
noon, and then he voided an almost incredible quantity of hardened 
faeces, consisting chiefly of curdled milk. No evacuation took 
