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ON COWS NOT CLEANSING. 
attending such cases; frequent attempts at deglutition, and suf¬ 
ficiently painful to produce profuse perspiration. I was on the 
point, as it was late, of passing the probang; but as I could not 
detect any obstructing body, and learning that frequent attempts 
had been made with a tar-rope for the removal of the turnip, I 
contented myself for the night with bleeding and blistering the 
throat and neck. 
The morning found him better: fluids were at first administered, 
and with some difficulty; and for several days he could not swallow 
any thing solid and dry without evident pain. He ultimately did 
well. The symptoms here were, no doubt, brought on by the 
violent means which had been used producing, most probably, 
laceration of the membranes. 
Choking in beasts, while stall feeding, is very common ; but 
here, as before observed, if the contractile power of the canal is 
sufficient to propel the substance to a certain distance, the pro¬ 
bang is sure to relieve, if properly applied. It is hardly credible 
that men should adopt such means, but I have known two far¬ 
mers kill their beast by using a common rack-stave. One of the 
cases I only had the history of, but I can depend on it. The 
other I was called to attend. The rack stave had been in requi¬ 
sition, and the owner was sure he had passed the turnip, and 
the cow did swallow some given liquid.” She would not attempt 
to take any thing voluntarily. I satisfied myself that fluids did 
pass, and I then thought it possible that a piece of the root 
might be so shaped as to allow of the passing of liquid. 
The next day the symptoms were the same; there was no 
swelling of the neck of any amount, nor could any thing be felt 
externally. I confined the head, and passed the instrument, 
which went its full length into the stomach. About the third 
day from my first seeing her, she died ; and it was found that the 
stave had slipped on the back side of the turnip, and made a con¬ 
siderable rent in the oesophagus sufficiently large to let the turnip 
out, and there it lay in the cellular membrane. 
Your paper, I can easily imagine, will be occupied with mor 
valuable matter; but I am in your hands, and do with the tinge 
therefore as you please. 
ON COWS NOT CLEANSING. 
Bp Mr. W. A. Cartwright, F.^., Whitchurch. 
It is a very common occurrence with cows, after they have 
calved, for the placenta or cleansing not to come away or sepa- 
