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A CASE OF ASCITES IN A COW. 
but notwithstanding all this, the animal may be able to carry or 
draw his master, and so the nephritic disorder is not noticed. 
At least, the only person likely to notice it in this form is the 
groom; and he does not think it necessary to say any thing 
about it to his master, but conceives that he shall soon set all 
right by a dose of physic, or a few urine-balls. Many horses 
work on with chronic nephritic disorder to the end of their lives ; 
others, but comparatively few in number, grow so much worse as 
to be unable to continue their work, and are then often said to 
be chinked in the backfor which they are turned out and 
rested, and that in time often recovers them, or, at least, suf¬ 
ficiently to enable them to recommence their work. So that 
it would appear that nephritic diseases are more likely to escape 
observation altogether than most other disorders ; and when 
they do attract notice, are not deemed of magnitude or import¬ 
ance sufficient to require the doctor: on which accounts they do 
not seem often to come under the management of the veterina¬ 
rian. 
The case reported by Mr. Naylor is one of acute nephritis, 
and appears to have been produced from mechanical injury; 
the pony, the day previous, having been cast in the field under 
some rails.Venesection, and moderate doses of aloes, com¬ 
bined with mucilaginous drinks, were the remedies judiciously 
adopted by Mr, Naylor, and with complete success. 
A CASE OF ASCITES IN A COW. 
By Mr. Tait, Portsoy, F.*S'. to the Banffshire Farmers' Club. 
August 20,1832.—I was requested to see a cow, the property 
of a farmer, which had been ill for some time. She had not 
been so frank for her meat as she used to be,’^ said the old man, 
'^and is always blown up (hoven)”. On examining the cow, I 
found her abdomen very much distended; and, on giving her a slight 
push on the side, I thought there was an undulation as if water were 
in the abdomen. I communicated my suspicions to the owner; I 
am quite for what you will,’^ was the reply. I had the cow thrown 
on her side, and introduced a small trocar and canula between 
the udder and umbilicus; then withdrawing the trocar, a rush of 
water escaped through the canula, and which on being measured 
amounted to eight gallons. The cow, when she got up, seemed 
to be faint; and as she was low in condition, I did not bleed her; 
but gave lib of Epsom salts and J oz. of ginger, and ordered her 
some grass, and mashes of malt or bran. 
