566 
PUERPERAL FEVER IN COWS. 
I immediately abstracted seven pounds of blood, and gave her 
the following medicine :— R Glauber salts, one pound ; nitre and 
cream of tartar, each $'u ij ; tartarized antimony, 3 ij ; powdered 
hellebore, 31 ; sulph. ^iiij ; liquorice powder, ^i, in water gruel; 
with butter and treacle, each ^iij. 1 ordered the body and legs 
to be well rubbed and covered up with rugs and straw, to bring 
on perspiration : there was a total suppression of milk. 
15/4.—Extremities something warmer, perspires freely, pulse 
about sixty, and stronger; respiration seventy ; no discharge: 
administer an enema; give the following drink:— R Glauber 
salts, Jvj; nitre, and cream of tartar, each 3iiij ; sulph. Jiij ; tar¬ 
tarized antimony, ji; hellebore, %ss ; liquorice powder, ^i; 
powdered aniseed and mustard seeds, of each half an ounce; with 
butter and treacle as before. She had a small discharge of 
faecal matter, and a large quantity of urine passed at night. I 
ordered water gruel three times a-day. 
16*4.—Rather better; a great discharge of faeces; takes more 
notice; drinks gruel; pulse fifty-four; respiration fifty; per¬ 
spires profusely; kept so by clothing and rubbing: extremities 
warmer, mouth and nose moist; but she is still unable to get up. 
Repeat the last drink with only ^iiij of salts. 
17*4.—Much better ; pulse forty-six ; respiration fifty-four ; 
extremities warm: takes gruel and hay, and bran mashes. Milk 
increasing; is more lively, but not able to get up. I gave half 
of last drink. 
18^4.—-Still mending ; she got up, but was lame of one hind leg. 
19/4.—I found her labouring under great local pain, from ex¬ 
cessive swelling of the right thigh and hip : in fact, the whole 
leg and thigh, from the hock to the sacrum, was distended as 
much as the integument would admit of, and in a complete 
state of gangrene. I made long and deep incisions into the 
parts, when about three quarts of a thin, blackish, bloody fluid, 
flowed out, mixed with deposits of puriform and fibrous matter, 
more or less condensed. This discharge continued to the amount 
of several quarts every day. I fomented the part three times 
a-day with very hot water, and a strong stimulating mixture was 
rubbed in betwixt the times of fomenting. 
21s/.—Appears to be doing well, except that abscesses are form¬ 
ing all along, and through the thigh, 8cc., running along the 
muscles, to the very bone; and perfectly dividing all the mus¬ 
cles, one from another, the whole length of the thigh and hip, 
and destroying the cellular membrane that unites the muscles 
together ; large pieces of which, in a half decomposed state, and 
very foetid, were removed every time the ulcer was dressed, to 
the amount of fourteen ounces at a time. Large quantities of 
