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owner seemed no way inclined to have it done, and wished me 
to try the effect of medicine, which I did without any improve¬ 
ment. 
I heard no more of her until the 24th of July, when I again 
received a message to go and see her. I found she had taken 
no food for two days. The pulse was 112; and she seemed to 
be suffering much pain, and was continually striking at her belly 
with the hind feet. 
The owner now desired me to do whatever I pleased with her, 
as he considered that she was a dead cow; but I was in no 
ways inclined to do any thing with her, as I considered it a 
hopeless case; yet, as he urged me to do something, I again 
proposed tapping her, but told the owner that he need not be 
surprised if she never rose again. He was thus prepared for the 
worst. 
I had her taken from the house to a convenient spot. I 
threw her and secured her, and introduced the trocar into the 
abdomen, midway between the udder and umbilicus; when in¬ 
stantly rushed out a fluid clear as crystal, about the thickness of 
oil, and quite the slippery feel. I then had her raised on her 
feet, and received the fluid into a proper vessel. It amounted to 
the enormous quantity of 102 quarts. I left the canula in the 
wound, and the fluid continued to dribble from her for two days. 
I ordered the cow a few tares, with gruel, and gave alterative 
medicine for a time. Two days after the operation she produced, 
with a little assistance, a putrid foetus, which had the appearance 
of having come to its proper time. She now began gradually 
to improve, but had a prees (Q y * what !) for about a month, 
and a great quantity of an acrimonious substance escaped from 
the uterus. She is now in good condition, and feeding well. 
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THE VETERINARIAN, MAY J, 1834. 
No quid falsi dicero aiuloat. ne quid veri non audeat.—CicEno 
CATARACT. 
The attention of the readers of The Veterinarian —may 
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I not say of the profession?—has, from the commencement of the 
present year, been most interestingly called to the subject before 
us; and I think I may now add, in such a manner as appears 
likely to elicit some highly useful and important additions to our 
present stock of knowledge on the diseases of the eye. Although 
