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very much accelerated, beating 100 per minute : even standing 
a few yards from her, you could have heard the heart beating as 
distinctly as if your ears had been laid against her side. She had 
been bled the day before to the amount of two quarts and a half, 
and had got some laxative medicine, but without producing any 
effect. As she had been ill for some time, and vvas so weak, I 
did not take more blood from her, but administered 12 oz. sulph. 
magnes., 12 oz. ol. ricini mixed with gruel, and ordered injections' 
to be given until it should operate, and her water to be kept till 
my return. • 
2d day .—Much in the same state as yesterday, eats nothing, 
pulse still as quick, medicine has not operated. R ol. lini Jxx. 
Water voided with difficulty, and very red, rather approaching 
to black. Ordered injections to be continued, and plenty of gruel 
to be given. 
3c? day .—A few hours after leaving her yesterday the medicine 
operated, and still continues doing so. Looks somewhat livelier, 
picks up a little hay : water changed. Ordered any thing she will 
eat, such as malt or bran mashes. 
Thinking my assistance no longer necessary, I did not visit 
her again until the 10th day, when the owner said to me she 
is going to lose her feet.” On examination I found he w'as 
quite right in his conjectures, as she certainly was losing them ; 
for on laying hold of one of her fore ones it came off in my hand, 
as did the others in the course of a few days. Her tail also fell 
away with the exception of about four inches. I ordered 
poultices to be applied to her feet, and to be continued for some 
days. I saw her about a week after, and found her doing well, 
and to all appearance free from pain. She eats food with 
greediness, and is now tied up to be fed. A new secretion of 
horn is coming down rapidly again. 
A CASE OF STRICTURE OF THE OS UTERI. 
By the same. 
Since writing the above, I was requested to see a cow that 
calving. On my arrival, the gudewdfe said to me 
that the cow was surely witched,” as she had no passage to 
calve. On examination, I found the mouth of the uterus so much 
contracted, that I could only introduce one of my fingers, and 
the stricture so strong that I could not break it: I therefore in¬ 
troduced a small probe-pointed bistoury, directed by my finger, 
and divided the stricture, which allowed the calf to be extracted 
alive. The cow is now <loing^ well. 
