34 CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
experience. My paper, I find, has extended much further than 
I had intended; but, in taking my leave of the discussion, I may 
be allowed to say, that I do so with the same perfect good 
humour with which, on my part, it was begun—for my object in 
courting the observations of others has been solely the elicitation 
of truth ; and, I do trust, that what I have written will not be re¬ 
ceived by the body of the profession with that cold-hearted and 
cynical distrust and criticism, the sure tendency of which would 
be, if generally exercised, to crush altogether the spirit of 
inquiry, and confine the fountains of our professional knowledge 
within the walls of a few public institutions. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
No. XVII. 
By Mr. Youatt. 
VAGINAL PROTRUSION'—DROMEDARY. 
Sept. 9th, 1837.— This morning our female dromedary has 
produced a young one, a female, the period of utero-gestation 
having been, as nearly as we can calculate, twelve months. Her 
udder is very much swelled; but she will neither let the little 
one suck her, nor us milk her. Give her eight ounces of Epsom 
salts in her water. 
The little one is sadly weak, unable to rise, or to stand when 
raised. Give it from a bottle cow’s milk that has been boiled. 
Wth .—She suffers us now to milk her a little. There was 
from the first a slight vaginal protrusion. It has increased, and 
is now the size of a double fist. She will scarcely permit us to 
touch it, and if we press upon it in the slightest degree she turns 
furiously round upon us. It is absolutely impossible for us manu¬ 
ally to return it as she stands, and to cast her would be attended 
with extreme danger to her, to say nothing of ourselves. Watch 
the opportunity, and inject, as well as can be managed, a de¬ 
coction of oak bark, throwing cold water, also, occasionally on 
the part. 
The young one gets very little stronger, and is much purged. 
It has the small quantity of milk we can get from the mother, 
and boiled cow’s milk, to which let there be added a little pre¬ 
pared chalk and syrup of white poppies. She takes to her bot¬ 
tle very kindly and nicely. 
l^th .—The protrusion is doubly as large as at the last report, 
and it looks as if extensive ulceration was not far distant. No- 
