VOMITING IN A COW. 
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In process of time the teeth regained their naturnl whiteness. I 
have since had opportunity to ascertain that tlie blackness of the 
teeth was not produced by the medicine ; and I am inclined to be¬ 
lieve that it was caused by the acid fluid that was ejected from the 
stomach. 
My colleague, Cousinie, has seen a case almost identical with 
this, and which terminated in the same way. 
Case III.—On the 30th March, 1815, at night, I was desired 
to attend on a cow that was blown. I gave her a drink com¬ 
posed of an infusion of tansy, with two ounces of theriaca. In the 
night the cow began to vomit. It was renewed on the following 
day. She ate with voracity; but she had scarcely swallowed a 
very little food ere she appeared to be exceedingly uneasy—she 
was in evident pain—she bowed her back, and stretched out her 
neck, and the abdominal muscles were violently contracted ; and 
she was tucked up at the flanks, and there was an evident vermi¬ 
cular motion of the paunch, and then the vomiting began. 
I ordered an infusion of peppermint to be given, with six 
drachms of camphor. 
On the third day the vomiting recommenced, and two of these 
drinks were given. 
On the fourth day the vomiting continued, and the infusion 
of peppermint was given, with an ounce of camphor. Two hours 
after this administration of the remedy, food was offered to her, 
which she ate, and vomited no more on that day; but it was 
necessary to be cautious as to the quantity of food given, for if 
she was suffered to eat too much, vomiting certainly followed. 
From this time she began to get altogether better, and was at 
length perfectly cured. 
We should carefully distinguish between two kinds of vomit¬ 
ing very different from one another, and to which oxen and cows 
are occasionally subject. The first, at which I need only to hint, 
frequently occurs. It is occasioned by the food being voraci¬ 
ously eaten. M. Fromage has described this. Having many 
times seen cattle labouring under this species of sickness, I have 
never thought it worth while to prescribe any medical treatment. 
Nature is all-suflicient here. She gets rid of the superfluous 
aliment, and the vomiting seldom lasts more than half an hour. 
The animal then begins to ruminate, and the indisposition 
ceases. 
Tlie second kind of vomiting is attributable to a spasmodic 
state and action of the paunch. It is this of which the three 
cases which I have related aflbrd examples. The treatment 
which I have employed has been very successful ; all three of 
the patients were perfectly cured. Fromage, who had little ex- 
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