UlllNAKY ORGANS IN CATTLE. 
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October —She was evidently much worse. The owner had 
observed, when she staled, bloody matter mixed Avith the urine. 
She neither fed nor ruminated. I examined the vagina, but paid 
no particular attention to the state of the uterus, as she was not in 
calf: the vagina was pale, but otherwise apparently in a healthy 
state. 
2d .—Bled her to six pints, and gave an aperient. Examined the 
urine, &c.: it was composed of albuminous matter streaked with 
blood, and having beside clots of pus, blood, and albumen mixed. 
There was not much watery matter in proportion, and her attempts 
to stale were not frequent. I gave her Jij ol. tereb. and Jss ol. 
juniperi in mucilage twice a-day. 
Sd .—The quantity of pus was much increased, and it was ac¬ 
companied with small amorphous calculi, like mortar, which rapidly 
effervesced with muriatic acid. Continued the medicine as yes¬ 
terday, and supported her with mucilage of gum arabic and thick 
gruel. 
4/A.—No apparent alteration. She still ate nothing. I admi¬ 
nistered a copious saline enema, as there was not much inclination 
to void faeces, and proceeded with the same medicine, between the 
doses of which I gave Jj p. gentianae and Jj p. anisi in gruel. 
5t/i and 6t/t .—The discharge continued unabated, and the case 
was pronounced hopeless; but I still persisted in the use of the 
same medicine. 
1th. —Mr. M. told me that she had, in the previous night, got into 
a narrow passage leading from the neathouse to the calves’ crib, in 
which she could neither proceed or retrograde. In her struggles 
two or three abscesses were ruptured in the kidneys, and it is very 
probable some important branch of the renal artery was ruptured, 
causing death, as the abdomen contained a large quantity of coagu¬ 
lated blood. Her position in so small a place, from which she 
could only be removed piecemeal, was very unfortunate for my 
post-mortem examination, as I could not exactly satisfy myself 
whence the limmorrhage proceeded. I obtained the kidneys and 
bladder; the former were enlarged, and the cortical part of a very 
pale colour: the medullary part was the seat of several large ab¬ 
scesses, which contaiiKid purulent bloody matter and small mortar- 
like calculi, which were rapidly decomposed by muriatic acid. 1 
did not test them furtlier, as the analysis of the calculi generally 
found in neat stock (by Mr. Morton) sufficiently satisfied me of the 
probability of their composition. The bladder was corrugated in 
thick folds, on the ridges of which papillm of the size of a small 
bean were raised. They were very pale, and covered with lagumT, 
from which, on pressure, oozed a thick fluid. As this was not ex¬ 
amined till twelve hours after death, I have imagined the secretion 
belore death was widely different. The bladder contained a pint 
