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observed about him. The wound in this second bullock was not 
deep, nor above two inches long, and was going on very well 
until yesterday, the 16th, when he seemed to have no pain in 
the wounded leg, but a great deal in the off hind leg, which he 
was often lifting up. He refused' his food, and champed his 
jaws sharply together at times, with twitching of the head, 
pulling it on one side, and a great deal of frothy saliva was dis¬ 
charged from his mouth. 
I did not see him until to-day, the 17th ; it was distressing to 
witness his sufferings. The pain had returned to the wounded 
leg, and he frequently held it up and forwards. The wound 
was dry, the leg not swelled, and, when not lifted off the 
ground, he stood on it as well as on the other leg. The paunch 
was as much sw r elled as in a beast badly dew-blown or hoven. 
He was continually champing sharply; his lips were covered 
with saliva; there were spasmodic twitchings of the head to the 
near side; and he was frequently rubbing the near side of his 
head against the tops of some boards. He had rubbed the hair 
quite off that side of his head; and, on the same side, the mouth, 
cheek, and eye, were very much swelled. He did not at all rub 
the other side, so that the two sides presented a remarkable 
contrast. 
I considered it to be a tetanic affection of one side of the 
nervous system, arising from the v 7 ound in the fetlock joint, or 
a translation of inflammation from the w r ound to the brain and 
nerves on the same side. 
He was fastened by his horns to a post, with his head a little 
elevated above his body. The paunch was then punctured, and 
the distention got rid of. He was bled to the amount of seven 
quarts, being a large fresh bullock. The champing of his mouth 
ceased. He strained violently, as if trying to dung. I gave 
gave him aloes 3 v j> an d s ^ x drops of the croton oil. I was 
then going to clyster him, when I saw his off eye sink in his 
head (the near was closed before by the swelling). I thought 
him fainting. He dropped on his hind parts. We let his head 
down, and in a few minutes he died without a struggle. 
The case was desperate at first, and no one was surprised at 
the result. The bullock never tried to toss at any thing. He 
took no notice of fresh objects, and was not agitated by blows 
on the horns with a stick. There was no stiffness or rigidity of 
the limbs or the body, and, afterffhe paunch was punctured, he 
moved about the place as well as another bullock would. He 
seemed wholly occupied with the pain in the near side of his 
head, except when, occasionally, the wounded leg was lifted up. 
