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of Physic,—“ if he had employed all the world, she could not have 
been saved.” 
On the next case I was consulted, and found the following symp¬ 
toms :—constipated bowels, a great disinclination to move, and loss 
of milk; pulse accelerated, and about 60; mouth slightly ulcer¬ 
ated, with a large ulcer on the tongue; feet very tender, udder 
swollen, and the poor beast looking dejected. 
The treatment I adopted was as follows:—sulph. mag. 
pulv. antim. 3 !, pulv. nit. 3 ii, ipecacuanhse 3 ii, in a pint of thin 
gruel, and in six hours repeated it. The feet were washed clean, 
linseed poultices applied, and the ulcers washed with a weak solu¬ 
tion of zinc. 
On the following day I found her much better; her body was 
open, and the ulcers in the mouth and tongue had assumed a healthy 
appearance. Dressing as before. Some suppuration appearing 
in the feet, I applied a strong solution of copper, and repeated the 
poultices. I then gave sulph. mag. Jss, pulv. zingib. 3 !] in gruel. 
In the course of a few days the cow was in her former health. 
I have, up to this time, had about forty cases, in all which I have 
followed the above treatment, with one exception,—increasing the 
dose of sulph. mag. to 1 ib. in several of them, with the best effect. 
I have not lost one. 
I shall not venture to give any opinion as to the nature of the 
disease, but leave that to be decided by abler hands than those of 
your humble servant; at the same time I would suggest how ac¬ 
ceptable the opinion of any gentleman with great practice would 
be, and particularly if he would enter into a full description of the 
disease; and no one, I will add, would that gratify more than my¬ 
self. 
COMPOUND FRACTURE—AMPUTATION—WOODEN 
LEG. 
By Mr. John Storry, Pickering. 
October 30, 1839, I was sent for to attend a young cow belong¬ 
ing to Mr. William Beilby, of the Buck Inn, Wrelton. She had 
fractured her leg in crossing a small rivulet of water with a rough 
rocky bottom, about eight miles from Wrelton. 
On examining the leg, I found it to be a compound fracture of 
the metatarsal and cannon bone, a little above the sesamoids. I 
dressed the broken ends, &c., bound up the leg with bandages taken 
with us for the purpose, and conveyed her home in a cart. I then 
returned the protruded part, put on a charge, and afterwards fixed 
