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LACKRATION OF THE RECTUM 
nitr. aa Jiss in gruel. I also put some clothing about her loins, 
and ordered her to be kept quiet until I saw her again in the 
morning. 
6^/i, 7 A.M.^—Pulse 90, stronger, and the legs, horns, and ears, 
warm. Repeat medicine, without the magnes. sulph., and give 
warm gruel every four hours. 
8 P.M.—Pulse 86, increased in strength. The medicine has 
operated ; but she has not been seen to void any urine. Give digit, 
pulv. 5 iss, antim. potass, tart. 5 i, sp. seth. nitrici et tinct. opii aa §i, 
and continue gruel. 
lih, 9 A.M.—Pulse 82. She has staled during the night. Repeat 
the medicine, and give bran mashes and gruel. 
8 P.M.—Pulse 80. She has eaten two mashes, and drunk some 
gruel: she dungs and stales regularly. Repeat the medicine with¬ 
out the tinct. opii. 
8^A, 10 A.M.—She ruminates, and is much better. Give antim. 
potass, tart. 3j, potass, nitrat. 3iij, pulv. gentian 3 ij twice a-day. 
\\th. —Better. Discontinue the medicine. 
\4ith. —Convalescent. 
The cow was in low condition when she calved, and this was 
her eleventh or twelfth time of calving. The owner informed me, 
to use his own words, that she “ threw her reed down” two years 
ago, and that he had had four cows which had their reeds torn in 
a similar way, and not one of which recovered; but in all these 
cases the rent was stitched up, and the sutures would produce a 
degree of irritation often sufficient to cause death. In all the cases 
I have met with they have not been used, for I have always 
found that the divided edges of the uterus have been brought 
Together by the natural contraction of that viscus. 
SINGULAR CASE OF LACERATION OF THE RECTUM 
ATTENDED WITH STRANGURY. 
By Mr. J. B. MlNiKEN, V.S., Wexford. 
A VALUABLE mare, the property of a respectable farmer, residing 
in Glin, county Wexford, was brought to my infirmary on the 21st 
of May, 1839. The owner informed me that she had been suffering 
extreme pain during the last four-and-twenty hours, and neither 
staled or passed any faeces, although continually endeavouring to 
do so. He could not account in any way for it. 
Symptoms .—I perceived the anus, perinaeum, and vulva much 
swollen and inffamed; the anus in particular was greatly protuber- 
