496 ACUTE FOUNDER IN THE FEET OF A MILCH COW. 
found it considerably distended ; on discovering which, I imme¬ 
diately introduced a catheter into the urethra, and quickly drew 
off more than a gallon of urine, which very much relieved her. 
After this, I more minutely and attentively pressed upon the 
above organ, in order to see if I could feel any thing like a cal¬ 
culus or stone in it, but could find none: I however left my 
instrument with my employer to draw the water off himself 
whenever it might accumulate, and in the interim to inject with 
a syringe warm w^ater into the bladder two or three times in the 
day. I also left a mild purge to be given, and, after that, some 
balls with opium and Peruvian bark. I did not bleed her, be¬ 
cause there was no fever or constitutional excitement present: 
she ate well, appeared lively, and did her usual work (until 
I ordered her rest) without any apparent diminution of flesh; 
nor was the bladder found tender upon compression, &c. I 
therefore concluded it must be a case of paralytic affection of 
the neck of that viscus. The mare is something but not much 
better than she was. Have any of your correspondents seen a 
similar case, and will they favour me and the profession with 
their opinion and treatment of it ? 
ACUTE FOUNDER IN THE FEET OF A MILCH COW. 
By the same. 
Immediately after calving the animal caught a chill,’’ as 
the man termed it, which at first settled itself in the udder, and 
partly in the feet; but, by some topical application that he used, 
it left the bag and went to the fore feet, thereby causing the 
poor beast to hobble along like a foundered horse; indeed, she 
was so lame that she could scarcely stand. 
Notwithstanding all this, the proprietor did not send for a 
practitioner until a fortnight after it first happened, nor did he 
either bleed or purge her, but thought she would get well with¬ 
out the help of medicine. He however, at last, sent for me. 
I had her soles thinned, and her hoofs rasped. I bled her in 
the toe of each claw', and gave her a purging drench. I after¬ 
wards administered small doses of sulphur, from three to four 
ounces, with tonics and stomachics. 
The cow is now very well, constitutionally speaking, but is 
still lame and tender in her feet, and loses flesh, from the 
pain and irritation of these parts. I likewise ordered poultices 
to be applied, but with no apparent good results. 
It is very remarkable that she never flinched when her feet 
were compressed by the pincers, or the hoof w^as struck w'ith 
