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CHOKING IN A COW. 
horses labouring under typhus, and in those generally that were 
destined for dissection, or to be sacrificed in certain opeiations, 
with a very few exceptions, this globular motion of the artenal 
blood could be little or not at all perceived. 
Journal de Med . \et. 
CHOKING, AND FRACTURED RIBS IN A COW. 
By Mr. J. P. Sinclair, V.S-, Morpeth. 
Being a regular subscriber to your valuable periodical, and 
having derived much information from the knowledge diffused 
throughout its pages, I, although a junior in the profession, 
feel desirous to contribute my mite. 
The subject of my present communication was a cow lime 
years of age, the property of Mr. T. Potts, of Molesdam. I was 
requested to see her on the 15th of April last, and found hei 
with a portion of turnip firmly lodged in the oesophagus, a little 
below the portion parallel with the larynx, and which had been 
there since the morning of the previous day. It was with 
difficulty that respiration could be performed j the eyes were 
fixed, and almost ready to fly from their sockets; and theie was 
a considerable flow of blood and saliva from the mouth and 
nostrils. • On the first appearance of obstruction, the turnip was 
lodged about half way down the oesophagus : efforts had been 
made to force it upwards, and then with a thick rope and broom 
handle downwards, and it was left in the situation above 
described. I had recourse to the probang, but my effoits were 
unavailing i I therefore very soon recommended tracheotomy, as 
the only means of saving her life. 
After deliberate consideration, the owner consented; and I 
proceeded with the operation in the usual way, cutting out a 
portion of two of the cartilages. The moment I had removed 
them, more than a pint of spumous bloody fluid escaped from the 
orifice : respiration was more freely performed, the discharge 
from the mouth and nostrils was considerably diminished, and 
she seemed quite composed. I left her with instructions to 
administer small quantities of gruel and linseed frequently, 
and on the evening of the 17th a small quantity of the lubrica- 
tive mixture passed down the gullet. ^ 
I was sent for again, on the evening of the 18th, to^ close the 
wound, as the owner considered the obstructing body to have 
escaped. I placed my hand upon the orifice, and found that 
respiration was performed with freedom through the nostril, and, 
on examining the oesophagus, the turnip was no longer to be 
