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ON THE STOMACHS OF RUMINANTS. 
navel. The foal appeared to be very ill, probably from that 
cause. I had him cast, tied a ligature tightly round the part, 
and left a cooling lotion. 
On the 23^ I saw him again. He was lying down in the field ; 
he got up, staled the right way, and is now a fine colt. 
On September 3,1833, I was sent for to a mare that had been 
ill all day. The principal symptoms were, lying down and get¬ 
ting up ; lifting one hind leg, and then the other; with a dis¬ 
charge of bloody fluid from the vagina. The pulse was 80. 
She had been bled ; but I took away 8 quarts more. I gave 
her an opiate enema, containing 4 oz. of tincture of opium, and 
2 oz. of spirit of nitrous ether, in gruel; and an hour afterwards 
she had a ball, containing 3 drachms of Barbadoes aloes, with 
10 grains of calomel. 
Ath .—Pulse 75. I again bled her, and gave her a laxative 
ball, containing 2 drachms of aloes : a laxative enema was also 
administered. 
5/4.—Pulse 48. Give 2 drachms of aloes. 
6/4.—She is well, and gone to grass. 
August 13,1833.—A cow had been ill with red water five days. 
She ate nothing ; rumination ceased ; and she could not walk 
more than twenty yards at a time. I gave her Cape aloes 2 oz.; 
sulphur 2 oz. ; sulphate of soda 8 oz.; nitre 2 oz.; ginger 1 oz. 
in nettle-tea, rather rotten. 
17/4.—She was considerably better ; but as she continued to 
be weak, I gave her a cordial drink. She did well. 
I have cured many cases of red water in the same way. 
ON THE STOMACHS OF RUMINANTS. 
By a Veterinary Surgeon. 
Feeling dissatisfied with the bare statement of cases, which 
I did not venture to enlarge upon myself, or find others so ready 
to do as I wished, I have discontinued sending them ; neverthe¬ 
less I have been mindful of your work, and thinking how other¬ 
wise I could assist you; nay, I have time after time taken my 
pen to write an essay, or start some question likely to produce a 
profitable discussion; but however much I have thought and 
written, nothing satisfactory has been produced. 
Your Number for this month found me in a state of mental 
lassitude, with scarcely a thought of ever making anotlier 
