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with no permanent inconvenience, and the animal was again put 
to work. 
Very lately a similar case, except that in this instance the 
wound, a very deep one, was caused by some sharp-pointed 
and small instrument, fell under my son’s management. He 
thought it a hopeless business ; but having heard my account 
of the former one, he adopted the same treatment. This case, 
with a very trifling difference during its progress, went on to the 
same satisfactory (local) result. 
I occasionally saw this case, and at first really thought nothing 
could have arrested the mischief: however, 1 am sorry to say, 
that tetanus came on about the twelfth day, which wound up the 
concern. I do not think it would be fair to attribute the tetanus 
to the incisions, as the part cut into had absolutely lost its vitality. 
I trace it to the original puncture. 
A CASE OF PUERPERAL FEVER—THE COW 
DESTROYED BY NITRE. 
[A friend requests our opinion of the following case, and his 
treatment of it. The Editor is a prisoner a-bed. What say 
some of our country practitioners about it?— Ed.] 
On January 10th, 1838, at 2 p.m. I was requested to see a 
cow, about eight years old and very high in condition, that had 
calved in the middle of the previous night, out of doors, and in 
the snow. The messenger told me that the cow was trembling 
in her hind quarters, and staggering a great deal in her walk, 
and would eat nothing. From this account I was aware of what 
was about to ensue ; and having another patient that demanded 
my immediate attention, two miles distant in an opposite di¬ 
rection, I sent the following drench by the messenger, and told 
him that I would come immediately on my return :—Magnes. 
sulphat. Ibj, sem. carui et pulv. zingib. iia. 5 !], to be given in 
warm gruel, and poured gently down the throat. 
Being unavoidably detained longer than I expected, I did not 
see my patient until about 5 p.m., when I found the cow down, 
heaving considerably at the flanks, grating her teeth, the muzzle 
dry and pointing to the flanks, the cheeks wet with tears, and 
without power to raise the hind quarters from the ground. The 
pulse was impevcejitible at the submaxillary artery, and with difl 
ficulty felt at the side, but sufliciently plain to tell me there was 
a burning fire w ithin. The pulse was small, (jnick, hard, wiry, and 
