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INTROSUSCEPTION IN A CALF. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, Whitchurch. 
ON Friday, 4th November, 1825, I saw a bull calf, six clays old : 
the servant said that it would not suck, and did not suck well 
last night. • , 
Symptoms. —It appears to be in pain, as it lifts up its legs 
towards its belly; discharges some blood from the anus, yet looks 
tolerably lively. I gave it two ounces of glauber salts, and two 
table-spoonfuls of gin, in a pint of the cow’s milk. 
4 p.m. —Is worse; lies down, and shifts its legs towards its 
belly; continues to discharge blood in small quantities; pulse 
quick. To be drenched with new milk. 
5 th, 9 a. m. —Much weaker, and can’t stand ; respiration very 
quick. I tried to bleed it, but could not “ raise a veinbowels 
not opened. Gave jvj sal glaub. in a pint of water.—3 p.m. 
Died. 
Examination. —The rectum felt hard and distended, slight 
inflammation, but a little dark-coloured, from something con¬ 
tained in it. About a foot from the anus there was a sort of knot, 
and on cutting open the rectum it was found to contain a portion 
of intestine, of about eight inches in length, with its coats much 
thickened, black, and in a complete gangrenous state, and appear¬ 
ing to terminate in a blind end near the anus. On opening the 
strangulated intestine just mentioned, a similar one, in ths same 
gangrenous state, was contained inside it, and also terminating in 
a blind end. The other intestines were perfectly healthy, and 
nearly filled with Reces of a fluid nature. 
DIARRHOEA IN A COW. 
[By the same.~\ 
THE following is a disease very prevalent in this country, and 
few are ever saved, or, indeed, attempted to be cured. On this 
account I have sent you a case of it, being the only one I have had 
the opportunity of examining after death. I have very little 
doubt, that, ere The Veterinarian has been established many 
years, we shall be able to combat the disease with success, if early 
applied to. 
On 7th January, 182(1, I saw a cow, six years old, that had 
calved a few days before, low in condition, and affected with a 
