302 ON PUERPERAL FEVER IN COWS, &C. 
all this under better and happier auspices I have no doubt; and 
I hope the time is not far distant when its professors will meet 
with that encouragement and consideration which the important 
and extensive benefit to be derived to the farmer and breeder 
renders a fair and legitimate claim upon them; and I am equally 
persuaded that, if the veterinary profession be destined to rise 
above its present degraded state of acquaintance with the Phy¬ 
siology and Pathology of Cattle^ if it be destined to assume 
that importance in the opinions and societies of agriculturalists 
which it ought to sustain, it must be by your exertions and 
through your publication; and, if the request of a humble indi¬ 
vidual might aught avail with you, I would say, persevere,, 
though even there may be nothing to incite you but a posthu¬ 
mous fame, no gratitude but that of posterity. 
The above was written previously to receiving The Veteri¬ 
narian for May ; and though there is an excellent article in that 
Number on one of the diseases which I have selected, yet, as it 
will be seen that Mr. Harrison and myself differ somewhat in our 
theory of the disease, as also in our mode of treatment, and as 
such singular good fortune has attended mine, I venture to send 
it without alteration; begging, as a favour, that Mr. H. will make 
a trial of my method on the first case that occurs in his practice, 
and favour us with the result, I am aware that this disease is 
characterized by different symptoms, even in districts only a few 
miles apart; yet so sanguine am I as to the effect of the treat¬ 
ment I have recommended, that I venture to predict it will be 
favourable, even under the circumstances he has named. 
If you think the subject of sufficient consequence, I should be 
glad of a corner in your next, to make a few remarks on Mr. H.^s 
paper, and also on the two cases by a veterinary practitioner: it 
appears to me that some important conclusions, connected with 
the physiology and pathology of the animal, are attached to 
them. A very slight hint will direct me. 
A CASE OF RED-WATER IN A COW. 
Hj/ Mr, Tait, F.5., Portsoy, 
Some time ago I was requested to see a cow, which I found 
affected with the red-water, and which had been ill for two days 
previously. She had been off her feeding from the time she was 
observed to be affected, and at the time I saw her she was lying, 
and scarcely able to rise, with extremities cold, and rumination 
completely suspended. Breathing much hurried, and pulse 
