A CASE OF DISTENTION OF THE STOMACHS OF 
A COW, PARTICULARLY THE MANIPLUS, SUC¬ 
CESSFULLY TREATED. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian ” 
Gentlemen, 
I transmit you a short account of a case in a cow which has 
come under my observation and treatment. Similar cases, I be¬ 
lieve, have occured to almost every veterinary practitioner ; but 
the treatment that has commonly been adopted has too often 
failed of relieving the animal. Having, in this case, adopted a 
different mode of treatment to what I ever had recourse before, 
and it being followed by speedy relief, I am inclined to beiieve 
that it will supersede most of our usual remedies. Should you 
think the following short account worthy of insertion in The 
Veterinarian, it is much at your service. 
Yours, &c. 
J. Cotcheifer, V. S. Newark . 
On the 26th March, 1830, Mr. Bonifant, of Langford, con¬ 
sulted me respecting two cows, which he said had gorged them¬ 
selves with eating wheat chaff. One he thought was dead at 
that time, and he wished me to prescribe for the other. On my 
arrival at Langford, I found one of the cows dead, and learned, 
on enquiry, that it was a week the preceding night since they 
had eaten the chaff. They showed symptoms of being unwell 
two days afterwards. Mr. B. suspecting the true cause, gave to 
each of them a dose of sulphate of soda. The quantity I could 
not exactly ascertain ; but he found no benefit from the dose he 
gave to either of them. He then sent to a cow-doctor in the 
neighbourhood for some medicine, which also proved of no ser¬ 
vice. The surviving cow was three years old, and in good con¬ 
dition. The symptoms were as follow:—dulness ; loss of appe¬ 
tite both for food and water; disinclination to move; generally 
lying down, but quite still, and not showing any symptoms of 
pain ; no appearance of any inflammatory action; the pulse a little 
above the natural standard, only forty-five in a minute (the na¬ 
tural standard pulse in oxen and cows I have always found to be 
about forty-two); cessation of rumination; no appearance of dis¬ 
tention of the paunch, either from food or gas; the bowels very 
costive, nothing having been voided from them for three or four 
days, but small fseces, very little at a time, and stiff; the extremi¬ 
ties were not at all affected, but appeared to contain their natural 
