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FEVER IN A HEIFER. 
turns of a pale colour; soon after which symptoms it is that 
scouring conies on. W e can often succeed in stopping it in di^ 
weather ; but then they do not get any flesh; and as soon as wet 
weather or frosty mornings come on, they scour again as bad as 
ever, lose flesh very rapidly, and are destroyed by their owners, 
or they die. On opening them there is not, geneially, much 
morbid appearance to be discovered. W hether the functions of 
parts are in a morbid state I do not know. I ha^e tin ee cases 
in 1825 by me, where flukes were found in the pori biliarii, and 
common duct of the liver after death ; but none of these scoui td. 
The intestines were thicker than common, and I think theie was 
obstruction in the mesenteric glands. 
FEVER. IN A HEIFER, WITH PECULIAR CONSTI¬ 
PATION. 
Bij Mr. James B. Simond's, of Bungay. 
IN the afternoon of June 23d I was called to a two yeai old 
heifer, the property of a neighbour, who stated she was 'eiy dull, 
and gave but little milk. On visiting her I found the pulse haia, 
about GO; breathing increased ; rumination had ceased ; and the 
nose and mouth hot and dry. Bleed eight pounds from the ju¬ 
gular vein; give a pound of Epsom salts in some thin gruel, and 
a mash at night. . . 
24///. Medicine not operated ; pulse 75; suffering much pain; 
and violently straining to void faeces, but without effect. Back- 
raking and clystering, Epsom salts one pound. 
Afternoon.—Neither clysters nor medicine having yet succeeded 
in relieving the bowels, I gave three-quarters of a pint of castoi 
oil, and ordered the clysters to be repeated every two houis. 
The owner had given her tw r o pounds of treacle at noon. I saw 
her again in the evening *. no evacuation of faeces was yet pio- 
duced 5 ; but the straining had somewhat abated. Clystering to 
be discontinued, and plenty of gruel to be homed down. 
25///. Much the same: the constipated state of bowels still 
continued. One pound of Epsom salts; clysters to be lepeated. 
Inserted tw’O pegs of hellebore root in each side, and two sctons 
in dewlap. Gruel as before. In the afternoon the medicine 
operated, when a considerable quantity of hair, earthy mattei, 8cc. 
was expelled. 
26th. Pulse and breathing continued still increased; the other 
symptoms were relieved. I gave tw r o drachms of powdeied fox¬ 
glove, and half an ounce of nitre; which was repeated at night. 
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