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V. S. 4 quarts. Croton oil 80 drops in gruel, and the other 
purging medicines alternately every eight hours. I blistered the 
sides. 
20th. —Worse; pulse 84, respiration 28, laborious groaning. 
Continued giving croton oil and smaller quantities of the purging 
medicines. - She remained in nearly the same state; but the 
pulse rather getting higher, three days afterwards I sent more 
medicine, as Mr. W. was very anxious to obtain a passage 
through her, if possible, and sometimes exceeded my instructions. 
Purging began on the tenth day, after which tney gave her, 
without my orders, one pound of Epsom salts and a bottle of 
castor oil, to clear her out at once: the consequence was, that 
two days afterwards, when I saw her, she was rapidly sinking from 
superpurgation. I gave opium ji in gruel, maoe or flour and 
sweet milk, and left opium 3ij to be given at twice, at intervals 
of four hours, if the purging continued. She died on the six¬ 
teenth day. 
I did not see her, but I was informed tnat tne nist two sto¬ 
machs were soft, and not inflamed ; that theie weie some haid 
parts in the under portion of the manyplus ; but that the passage 
from them to the fourth stomach was clear. Ihis was a case in 
which more purging medicine was given than I ever knew to any 
animal in so short a time ; but as there seemed to be no hope 
until the bowels were opened, it was given between hope and 
despair. The whole quantity amounted to three bottles of lin¬ 
seed oil, six pounds of Epsom salts, three ounces of aloes, and 
about 150 drops of croton oil. 
May 2\th. —Mr. G. Ferme, of Rosbery, called to say that he 
had a cow taken ill. She had a wild staring look, her head was 
protruded, and she had been falling off in milk for a week. I 
found her as above, heaving her head from side to side, her 
eyes were glazed, the extremities cold; pulse 70, respiration 
26. I immediately bled her to the amount of six quarts, and 
gave a bottle of castor oil, with five drachms of Barbadoes aloes 
in solution, and 20 drops of croton oil, alternately, every six 
hours. Clvsters were administered every three hours, and she 
was drenched with thin gruel: the legs were bandaged. 
25th .—No better: the same treatment was continued. 
26th .—Worse : pulse 90, respiration 27, laborious. The Wild 
look had left her, but the head was laid back on the shoulder, 
expressing much pain. I gave half a pound of Epsom salts, 
rubbed blister ointment on the sides, and bled to four quarts. 
I likewise continued the clysters, the hand-rubbing, and the 
bandaging of the legs. 
28^.—No better. She was kicking with her hind legs, and 
