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very beneficial effect in producing absorption of the hypopium. In 
the other case, which was not so violent, I used the acetate of lead 
with the extract of belladonna in solution, which also had a very de¬ 
cided effect. I would, in all cases of ophthalmia, strenuously re¬ 
commend the internal and external use of mercury, but by no 
means to use it externally until the acute stage is passed. If this 
paper should be the means of calling the attention of the veteri¬ 
nary world to that most neglected but most important branch of 
veterinary subjects, “the horse’s diseased eye,” I shall be highly 
gratified. 
CASES OF INFLAMMATION OF THE UTERUS 
IN CATTLE. 
By Mr. W. Cox, of Leek. 
In the summer of 1838, I was sent for to a cow. The symp¬ 
toms were, a quickened pulse, and great disinclination to move, with 
almost constant lying on the ground, and a continual straining, as 
if endeavouring to expel something from the uterus. She evinced 
great pain whenever the uterus was pressed upon. She was bled 
and purged, after which anodyne medicine was given to her, and 
she was well fomented on the regions of the vulva and the uterus. 
She remained in this state two weeks, when I began to give 
calomel, with opium, and used counter-irritants, which soon cured 
her. 
In January last I was sent for to another cow. The symptoms 
were, a quick full pulse; the patient more inclined to stand than 
in the former case, and very violent straining, resembling the throes 
of a cow wanting to calve. After a minute examination per rec¬ 
tum and vaginam, and also external pressure, I concluded, as in 
the former case, that the uterus was the seat of inflammation. 
Bleeding, physic, fomentations, and then calomel and opium, re¬ 
moved this inflammation in a few days. 
Remarks .—Inflammation of the uterus in cows a short time after 
calving is both a frequent and fatal disease : but neither of these 
cows had calved many months previous to the attack. The first 
cow had been out with the other cows and the bull, but she had 
never shewn any symptoms of bulling; possibly, however, some 
external or internal hurt might be the cause of her illness: but 
the second cow had never been out for five weeks previous, not 
even to the water, and, from all the information which I received 
with regard to every circumstance connected with the case, this 
inflammation must have been of spontaneous origin. 
