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VOMITING IN AN OX. 
Bi/ M, Santeju 
Case I.— I was sent for to a farm belonging to M. Nairae to 
attend an ox that was affected with almost continual vomiting 
for fifteen days. During this time the animal had been 
under the care of an empiric, who had been drenching him with 
large doses of various oils—as^linseed, walnut and olive oil; 
but the malady had not yielded to this treatment, which, in fact, 
did not seem at all suitable to such a case. 
This ox was sadly out of condition, its eyes were deeply sunk 
in its head, the pulse feeble, and the walk staggering. When 
any food was set before him, he seized it with greediness, and 
masticated it well. As soon as he had eaten a certain quantity he 
suddenly stopped, and seemed to be exceedingly uneasy ; the 
muscles of his belly contracted—he stretched out his neck—the 
food began to ascend the gullet, but in much larger quantities— 
it fdled his mouth and dropped to the ground. Portion after 
portion rapidly followed, until he had got rid of nearly all that 
lie had eaten. He immediately began to eat anew, and as heartily 
as if he were in perfect health, until the sickness again returned. 
It was the same with liquids, except that they were sooner dis¬ 
charged, and ejected to a considerable distance. Proper rumi¬ 
nation was altogether suspended. I could not discover any pro¬ 
bable cause for this complaint, and the animal was so rapidly 
wasting away, that I feared its almost immediate death. 
I administered a drink composed of an infusion of wild mint, 
not being able to get any of the garden-mint, and to every two 
bottles of the infusion I added an ounce of camphor, suspended 
in a sufficient quantity of vinegar : 1 was afraid that it would have 
been immediately rejected, but this did not happen, and therefore 
I began to entertain some hope of a cure. 
Three hours afterwards I ordered a little hay to be given to the 
animal. He ate it, and it was not returned. We then gave him 
some water whitened with rye-meal, which he drank and retained, 
and presently he began to ruminate the food which he had taken. 
On the following morning the drink was repeated, and at two 
hours afterwards a little more hay than on the preceding evening 
was given, and after that some white water was placed before him. 
He again began to ruminate. The farmer, pleased with this 
improvement, gave him a large (piantity of food which was eaten, 
but a portion of it was soon returned. When I was told of this, 
1 remonstrated with the farmer on his imprudence, esj)ecially as 
