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SPLENITIS IN THE OX. 
Diagnostic. —Acute splenitis, with gastric irritation. The 
plaintive lowings are symptoms of the last affection. 
Treatment. —Bleeding to 12 pounds, rest, restricted diet, 
mucilaginous drinks. 
2d day. —No rumination ; muzzle dry and wrinkled ; the same 
tension of the flank and the left hypochondriac region ; those 
parts are becoming tender: plaintive lowings continued ; the 
urine clear, and little in quantity, and the feces ejected without 
effort, in small quantities, soft, and coated with mucus. 
Treatment. —Bleeding to 10 pounds from the subcutaneous 
abdominal vein; drinks of a decoction of marshmallows ; 
emollient injections; application of cloths dipped in cold water 
to the splenic region. 
Zd day. —The symptoms have lost their intensity. The en¬ 
largement of the spleen has diminished two-thirds ; the plaintive 
lowings are not so often heard ; the beast ruminates, and during 
the rumination a white and thick fluid drivels from the mouth; 
he is eager for food ; the feces are expelled without pain, but 
they have not yet regained their natural consistence. 
Treatment. —Mucilaginous drinks ; emollient injections ; cold 
lotions about the region of the spleen ; a quarter of his usual 
allowance of dry meat; white water, with barley meal. 
1th, 6th, and (^th days. —He evidently continues to improve. 
The animal gradually returned to his ordinary regimen, and on 
the tenth day he went to work, the cure being completed. 
In this case splenitis is sufficiently evident at the commence¬ 
ment; it soon became complicated with gastro-enteritis, which, 
without energetic treatment, would not have failed to reach 
a high degree of intensity in a very short time, because it was 
plainly under the influence of the same cause that had given 
rise to the affection of the spleen. 
In the next case we shall see splenitis almost immediately 
terminating in rupture of that organ, because the circumstances 
that had produced it continued to act with unusual violence. 
CASE III. 
Acute splenitis, highly intense — Death. —On the 25th of July, 
1834, a well-formed ox, six years old, almost entirely employed 
in drawing wood, ate, about midnight, a great quantity of the 
ears of green maize. Oxen are very fond of this kind of food; 
and as he would have to work ten or twelve hours without halt- * 
ing, he was suffered to eat as much of it as he pleased. Having 
satisfied himself, he was harnessed, and sent to work. As in 
the first part of his journey they had only the empty cart to 
draw, the driver urged on his oxen very speedily, so that it 
