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torn, and exhibited on its lacerated surfaces large granulations 
of a rather deeper colour. 
The udder, in which no trace of milk was found, was slightly 
indurated. 
The abdominal viscera were covered and protected by a thick 
layer of fatty matter. 
From the detached account of this case, in my opinion the 
following questions arise :— 
1st, Was the flow of milk the consequence of the former chest 
affection ; and if so, how is it to be accounted for ? 
2d, Was it independent of the pneumonic disease; and, if 
so, what was its origin ? 
3d, W as the inflammation of the coecum and colon the 
consequence of the suppression of the flow of milk ? 
4th, Was it occasioned by the action of the aloes, too much 
increased by the exercise of the 15th ? 
5th, Was the disease of the liver contemporary with or an¬ 
terior to that of the chest? 
6th, The sound state of the lungs; does it not seem to indi¬ 
cate that there was no previous pneumonic affection? and that the 
practitioners who had treated the mare for it had formed an 
erroneous diagnostic in placing in the chest a malady of the 
liver—an organ the diseases of which are not yet well known, 
and which circumstance would, in a great measure, excuse the 
mistake ? 
Journal, Sep. 1834. 
DETERMINATION OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD, AND 
AMAUROSIS, IN A COW. 
Bj/ Mr. G. Cl EL AND, Rosewell, N. B. 
On the 25th June, 1832, I w’as sent for to attend a cow, the 
property of Dr. Smith, of Dun Esk, that had been taken badly 
on the 23d, with a shaking, loss of milk and cud, that would 
neither eat nor drink, and that had not dunged for several days. 
I was informed that they had a cow-doctor to her, and that he 
bled her, and gave her a drink of 2 quarts of ale, 4 oz. of mus¬ 
tard, 2 oz. of ground pepper, and life of treacle ; and that after 
this she had rapidly got worse. When I examined her, I found 
her to be blind; the pulse was 82,and there was a constant grind¬ 
ing with her teeth and foaming at the mouth. The shaking fits 
came on at times, and then she would catch the stall with her 
mouth, and hold it fast until the shaking went off, when she 
wmuld then tumble down very much exhausted. I gave her life 
