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THE POISONING OF NINE DUCKS BY MEANS OF 
HEMLOCK SEED. 
Communicated by the same. 
On the 6th instant I visited some of the cattle belonging to M. 
Lavaur, of Saint Medard, which were not well. When I arrived 
at the house they told me that nine ducks were poisoned, and that 
one of them had vomited some small seeds, of the name and quality 
of which they were quite ignorant. I requested them to shew me 
the meadow in which the ducks had been wandering. I there 
found the hemlock plant in its fullest state of maturity, and that 
the capsules growing from some of the lowest branches had been 
emptied. I compared the seeds vomited by the duck with those 
of the plant, and they precisely resembled each other. 
Symptoms .—Swelling of the craw, stupidity, and paralysis of 
the extremities. 
Treatment .—I poured plenty of milk and oil down their throats, 
and that soon produced considerable purging in seven of them, all 
of which recovered. On the other two this medicament had no 
effect, and they died. 
CASE OF INVERSION OF THE UTERUS IN A COW. 
By Mr. A. S. Copeman, Halesworthf Suffolk. 
[We insert the following case, not because there is any novelty 
about it, except the non-administration of the horrible drugs 
with which the poor animal used to be drenched under similar 
circumstances, but because it is a kind of continuation of the 
subject of several communications in our last number : it is also 
unaffectedly told, and a pledge of something more original and 
important by and by.—^Y.] 
On January 10th, 1840, at 3 A.M., I was sent for in haste to a 
cow. She had produced a fine calf without assistance, but was 
evidently in great pain, and unable to rise. The uterus was in¬ 
verted to an extent that would have filled a bushel. 
My first object was to cleanse it, with soft cloths and warm 
water, from all the dirt that had got about it in her struggles, and 
