582 CASES OF RED- WATER, PUERPERAL' FEVER, 
state, and, as she was quite fat, recommended the owner to have 
her slaughtered, to which he immediately consented. 
Appearances on Dissection. — The abomasum slightly inflamed; 
bowels healthy ; kidneys healthy; bladder containing a large quan- 
tity of coffee-coloured fluid ; spleen considerably enlarged ; liver 
enormously swollen, and gorged with black blood ; the pleura cos- 
talis injected with blood. 
PUERPERAL FEVER. 
May *A)th. — 1 was summoned in haste to see a cow belonging 
to a grazier. She calved on the day before yesterday, and was 
turned out in cold storms. She was taken ill during last night, 
and was freely bled this morning. I saw her this afternoon, and 
found her down, and unable to move — lying at full length — moan- 
ing pitifully, and the eyes turned into the orbits — pulse 120, and al- 
most imperceptible — and totally unconscious of surrounding objects. 
Her rumen was tremendously distended with gas ; and, as life 
appeared to be fast ebbing, she was bled to death by the butcher, in 
my presence and at my suggestion : she lost six gallons of blood 
before the vital spark was extinct, 
Sectio Cadaveris. — Lungs, stomachs, intestines, kidneys, and 
bladder healthy ; but the whole lobe of the liver hepatized from 
some chronic affection. The vagina inflamed, and the uterus in a 
state of non-contraction. 
RUPTURE OF THE GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE. 
Nov. 2 6th, 1836. — A gentleman hunting with Lord Segrave’s 
hounds, on Saturday the 26th ult., jumped his horse at a ditch 
which he did not clear with the near hind leg. The horse made a 
violent effort to extricate it, and after this pursued the chase with 
unabated cheerfulness, and when the sport was over walked home, 
a distance of eight miles, quite free from lameness. 
27 th. — 'Slight lameness was perceptible. 
28 tli . — I was requested to attend him, which I did, and found 
him extremely lame, unable to sustain any weight on the near 
hind leg, and barely touching the ground with his toe. Respira- 
tion distressingly laborious — pulse 80. He refuses all food — 
drinks excessively — the tongue is covered with fur — he is con- 
tinually catching his leg up, and is in dreadful pain — no swelling 
visible in any part of the limb. 
I examined his foot very minutely, and found no alteration or 
injury there to account for the lameness. I bled him largely from 
the femoral vein, and gave him aloes and hyd. submur., and ordered 
gruel to be given plentifully. 
29 th. — Purging freely — pulse 108 — in agonizing pain — con- 
