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and has not yet been enabled to rise; in fact, she never attempts to 
get up: she lies continually on her left side. She was turned once, 
but that gave her great uneasiness. At the onset of the disease her 
pulse was high; she was costive, and turned her head to her flank 
and moaned; she also ceased to feed. These unfavourable symp¬ 
toms were removed by three bloodlettings, and freely evacuating the 
bowels by ol. ricini and sulph. magnesia. After this treatment she 
has had stimulants, viz. gentian, ginger, and coriander seeds; her 
back has been stimulated, and now she has a charge on from her hip 
bones to the shoulders. Her bowels are becoming too much relaxed, 
from eating turnip-tops. To correct this, I am giving opium, creta 
preparata, catechu, and columba; and when I have established a 
natural action of the organs of digestion, can you recommend 
any mode of treatment that you think would be beneficial 1 if so, 
please communicate the same to me when convenient, and 1 will 
forward the result of such treatment to you. I am often called to 
attend similar cases, which are extremely harassing to the proprie¬ 
tor and vexatious to the practitioner; and if an expeditious mode 
of treatment could be discovered, it would be a great boon to the 
profession of which I am a member. This cow eats, drinks, and 
chews her cud very well, and has a nice dew on her nose. 
I confess that I have little to add to the lengthened account of 
this disease, which I ventured to give in the work on “ Cattle,” and 
which after-experience induced me somewhat to modify, as stated 
in the first volume of the “ Proceedings of the Veterinary Medical 
Association,” except to refer to the invaluable Essay on Puerperal 
Fever in Cattle, by Mr. Friend, in the 9th volume of The VETERI¬ 
NARIAN, p. 140, and to the whole discussion on this subject in the 
volume of the Association already referred to. It is a subject well 
worthy of the deepest investigation, for it was too long one of the 
npprohria of the veterinary art. 
This disease does not appear to be of so frequent occurrence 
among the French as the English cattle, and the etiology of it is 
far from being determined. The majority of French writers con¬ 
sider it to be connected with metritis. Such, in 1826, was the 
opinion of Professor Gelle, and we are eagerly expecting that por¬ 
tion of his invaluable work on cattle, in which, after an experience 
of fourteen additional years, he will have once more to give his 
opinion of the nature and seat of this complaint. Ilurtrel D’Arbo- 
val, in the last edition of his Dictionary, under the article of 
“ Paralysis” among cattle, and its connexion with some morbid 
affection of the spinal cord, asks: “ Is it not to the same cause 
that we must refer the state of many cows, who, after calving, 
although no peculiar difliculty or '\ iolcnt efforts accompanied the 
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