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A CASE OF HEP ATI R RHCEA IN A COW. 
ration quicker than usual. Being unable to rise, he was lifted 
up, when he thrust his head against the manger, and appeared 
to be quite unconscious of surrounding objects. So strong was 
his desire to go forward, that it was with great difficulty he was 
kept back, until I bled him to the amount of thiee quaits, when 
he became somewhat faint. I then ordered him to get 12 oz. of 
magnes. sulph., and left some powders composed of emetic tartai 
and nitre, to be given night and morning, and giuel to be ad¬ 
ministered frequently and freely, as he had not eaten any thing 
since he was attacked. I did not see my patient again, but met 
with Mr. Leslie some days afterwards, who told me he began to 
improve gradually after I left him, and was then perfectly well. 
A CASE OF HEPATIRRHCEA IN THE COW. 
By the same. 
Sept.12th, 1833.—I was requested by Mrs. Wilson, of Rose- 
acre Cottage, near Portsoy, to see a quey, two years old, which 
had been observed to be unwell on the night previous; but the 
herdsman thinking there was nothing serious the matter with her, 
did not require my attendance sooner. I being from home, my 
assistant went and found her standing; pulse about 80, and 
nearly imperceptible at the jaw, with extremities cold, rumination 
suspended, and a considerable degree of tremor in her hind quar¬ 
ters. He immediately tried to bleed her, but ere he got the blood 
to flow, she fell and expired. The mystery of her sudden death 
was divulged by a post-mortem examination. On opening the 
abdomen, that cavity was nearly filled with blood, amounting to 
about six gallons, which had escaped in consequence of a rup¬ 
ture, two inches in length, in one of the lobes of the liver. 
CASE OF STRANGULATED ABDOMINAL HERNIA. 
By Mr. Thomson, V.S., Beitli , N.B. 
On the 24th of July, 1833, I was requested to attend a colt, 
the property of Mr. Thomas Kerr, Dulry. There was a large 
fluctuating tumour upon his flank, and he was rolling now and 
then as in colic. I examined the tumour, and distinctly felt a 
portion of small intestine in its cavity: it was hard, and appa¬ 
rently strangulated. 
The colt was thrown upon its back, and the hernia, with con¬ 
siderable difficulty, reduced. The tumour did not altogether 
