264 FORMATION OF CARRERETTED HYDROGEN 
board of veterinary surgeons, before whom every candidate for 
practice must appear, and without a licence from whom he will 
not be able legally to practise, will, at no distant period, esta¬ 
blish a better distinction between the regular veterinarian and 
the mere empiric. Our young friend is wrong when he says, that 
* *an act of parliament was once tried for to prohi bit any but a regular 
veterinary surgeon from practising:” there was an attempt to 
obtain exclusive privileges for a particular school; but this, like 
every other illiberal and absurd grasp at monopoly in science, 
necessarily failed.—E dit. 
FORMATION OF (Q>: CARBURETTED) HYDROGEN 
IN THE RUMEN OF A COW. 
By Mr. G. W. Allinson, Idle , Yorkshire. 
Late in the night of the 24th December, 1832, I was called 
on to visit a cow, the property of Mr. G. Stansfeild, cloth manu¬ 
facturer, Idle. She had calved and cleansed on the 23d ; was 
a large bodied cow with very short legs, and apparently of 
Scotch descent. 
Symptoms . —Refused food and water, secretion of milk nearly 
suspended, pulse 50 and hard, extremities cold, bowels costive. 
The owner desired me not to bleed, but to give her a drink 
until morning. I reluctantly conformed to his request, and pre¬ 
scribed R. pulv. digital., antim. tart., hydr. submur. aa 3j, in a pint 
of gruel ; an hour after, sodae sulph. ifej in three pints of water. 
25th. —Early that morning a messenger desired my immediate 
attendance, as the cow was dying. She was laid, her head 
thrown backward on the left side, and her appearance exhibited 
that prostration of strength so common in milk fever; pulse 80, 
legs cold, horns and ears warm. I bled to eight pints,and the pulse 
sunk to 60; a large quantity of very fetid dung was evacuated, 
and she appeared a little relieved. R. potassae nitrat. Sss, mag- 
nes. carb. 3j, antim. tart., p. digital, aa 3j, mix, and repeat 
every six hours. 
8 p.m. —Pulse 58, dung pultaceous and very fetid ; no milk ; 
continue medicine. 
2 6th. —A little improved; pulse 50; dung not so fetid; all the 
extremities warm: gave four pints of milk; ate a little hay, and 
drank some gruel; continue the medicine every eight hours. 
10 p.m.— Much worse; dung fluid and very offensive; all 
the extremities cold ; respiration laborious; pulse 70, and hard : 
opened the jugular vein, the blood flowed rapidly at first, but 
