ON THE EFFECT OF PURGATIVES ON CATTLE. 
over. Ordered to be prepared for physic, and to have poultices 
of linseed meal, containing also a quantity of chloride of lime, 
to be applied to the affected parts, and to be continued for three 
or four da vs. 
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4th. — Physic purging. The heels are not so tender; but 
there is a profuse ichorous discharge. Ordered to be washed 
with soft soap and water, and afterwards to be covered with 
powdered chloride of lime. Mash diet. 
6/A.—The amendment is very great indeed ; in fact, the dis¬ 
charge has ceased, and the tenderness is trifling. Continue the 
chloride of lime. 
8 th .—The horse seems quite free from grease, the only re¬ 
maining signs being a quantity of scurf, which, of course, will 
soon disappear. 
The only reason I have for transcribing the foregoing case is, 
once more to bring before the profession a notice of the chloride 
of lime. It is with me a most favourite medicine ; and I am 
sure, if I can induce my brother practitioners to use it, they will 
agree with all my encomiums on its virtues. 
Southampton, March 22, 1S34. 
ON THE EFFECT OF PURGATIVES ON CATTLE. 
By Mr. J. D. Harrison, F.$. Lancaster. 
In sending the following case, I am not actuated by any wish 
for a renewal of the controversy with Mr. Friend; but it being 
of an unusual nature, and the treatment failing, I am led to 
hope, that, although worsted in this case, 1 may be more fortu¬ 
nate should I chance to meet with more of a similar kind. 
The subject was a small three-years-old heifer, and was never 
observed to ail any thing until the morning of the 16th of Fe¬ 
bruary last, when it was noticed that she had a quantity of very 
soft food lying upon the pavement before her, for the appearance 
of which the owner was unable to account until he had been 
with her a short time, when she vomitted a considerable quantity 
of a like consistence to that, which there cannot be the least sha¬ 
dow of doubt she had parted with in the same manner. In this 
dilemma, the advice and assistance of a neighbouring farrier was 
solicited, who bled her, and ordered the following drench to be 
administered at twice, allowing an interval of four or five hours 
between :—R Magnes. sulph. Ifej. aloes vulg. ext. 3}ss. pulv. 
zingib. ^ j. She had, during that day, thick gruel made of 
