IN THE STOMACH OF A COW. 
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suddenly stopped when three pints had come, and I pinned up ; 
app eared much distressed by the bleeding. R. pulv. zingib. 3ij, 
sodse carb. 5j, acid. tart. 3ss, aqua a pint. 
27th .—-Every bad symptom much worse, and there was, in ad¬ 
dition, a fixed jaw, and a little enlargement of the abdomen ; 
dung soft and fetid. 
28th .—No improvement; but the body more enlarged ; strug¬ 
gled very much. 
(j P#Mt —l n the same state; rather more milk was secreted. 
29th, —Worse; pulse 80; breathing stertorous; jaws firmly 
fixed; no other tetanic symptom; secretion of milk continued; 
more swollen. 
4 p.m. —Dead. Post-mortem examination immediately pre¬ 
sented the appearance of a cow that had been destroyed by 
having eaten too freely of clover or turnips. Though I had par¬ 
ticularly desired the tanner who removed the skin to be careful, 
in opening the body, that he did not wound the paunch, the 
enlargement was so great that he made a small opening therein; 
the gas rushed out, ignited (with a small report) from a lamp at 
two feet distance, burnt for a few seconds at the orifice, the 
stomach sunk down, the gas being expended. The man’s eye¬ 
brows and whiskers were scorched. 
For some remarks on the formation of hydrogen in the rumen 
of cattle, we refer our readers to the 14th No. of the Treatise on 
“ British Cattle,” published by the Society for the Diffusion of 
Useful Knowledge.—E d. 
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A CASE OF CORDS IN CATTLE. 
Bi/ Mr. J. Corbet, V.S., Simonborn. 
A complaint incident to oxen, and generally happening to 
those that have not attained their second year, is here called 
twisted or corded; not, however, resembling the cords so ably 
described by some practitioners in Forfarshire. This complaint 
commences with symptoms resembling slight gripes, total disin¬ 
clination to feed, and nothing passing in the form of actual 
faeces, although some small quantities of mucus are frequently 
voided. I have known an animal remain five days, and I have 
then operated upon him, and the case has turned out success¬ 
ful. The operation is begun by making an opening into the 
inside of the ox, beeinning a little before the ileum. The arm 
is introduced, and, in general, the cord or ligament is easily 
felt, commencing a little behind the kidnevs, at the origin of 
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the spermatic vessels, and attached to some part of the pelvis. 
