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FATAL EFFECTS OF A SLIGHT WOUND 
In making any observations upon the foregoing case, it will 
be necessary, before hazarding any opinion which might lead to 
a false pathology, to take the symptoms as they presented them¬ 
selves, and from them to draw a conclusion as to the part dis¬ 
ordered ; and if the one I have formed be correct, viz. The first 
and second stomachs being primarily, and the maniplus sympa¬ 
thetically, affected, it will throw some light upon the effects of 
purgatives on them; for if it be allowed that the purgatives 
which were first administered were at once directed into the 
rumen, and even allowing them to have been thrown out thence 
by vomiting, yet as that did not immediately ensue after admi¬ 
nistration, it at once clearly proves them to possess no direct 
influence over that organ, or some sensible effect would have 
been observed and produced, as was plainly exemplified in the 
very first dose of a stimulant. If it should, on the other hand, 
be urged that they did not enter the rumen at all, but were 
passed onward to the abomasum, purgation would to a certainty 
have taken place in an earlier stage of the disease, the intestines 
not being very torpid, as was evidenced by the almost regular 
voiding of the faeces. 
Another proof of the inefficacy of purgatives is, to me at least, 
conclusive; that the salts, &c. ordered by me must have entered 
the rumen, for I think no one will attempt to deny that the sti¬ 
mulant mixture did so; and it would be preposterous to suppose 
that the rumen could have the power of rejecting one whilst it 
received the other, such a short time intervening: then why, 
after four days’brisk purgation, do we find, upon a post-mortem 
examination, that the maniplus was filled with a hard and dry 
mass? Upon looking at all the circumstances of the case as 
they occurred, I must confess that I am unable to give any self- 
satisfactory answer as to the modus operandi of the medicines 
administered. 
FATAL EFFECTS OF A SLIGHT WOUND IN A 
BULLOCK. ' V 
By Mr. J. Hawthorn, V.S., Kettering . 
On Dec. 9th, 1833, a brawn gored, with its tusks, an aged 
mare on the thigh; but she did well; and a bullock across the 
knee-joint, and so completely laid it open, that it was necessary 
to destroy him immediately. He also gored another bullock in 
a slanting direction in front of the near-hind-fetlock joint. The 
brawn was kept some time afterwards, and nothing unusual was 
