cows POISONED BY WHITE LEAD. 
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determined to conquer or die. She recedes not a step, and 
relaxes not for an instant; till at last the neck yields, and she falls 
in a heap, sometimes with the head bent under the body. She 
lies quiet for a short time, breathing quickly ; she heeds nothing, 
and she seems now to be blind. After awhile she rises, and 
resumes her circumgyrations, which continue till the wall arrests 
her, and the former madness is renewed. At the close of some 
of these struggles the cow dies. 
On Dissection, I have not had opportunity of examining the 
brain. I found patches of inflammation in the first stomach, and 
the third full of food hard, and dry—as dry as bread. I found in 
the paunch some small portions of glazier’s putty, in which there 
w'as a little white lead. The cows had eaten it off the canal 
banks, where there had recently been some men at work, repairing 
the locks, and filling the seams with this sort of putty. In one 
of the cows there were only two very small pieces, not so large 
as an ordinary pea. It is probable, however, there had been 
more ; yet a small quantity seems sufficient to destroy life. 
The Treatment which I adopted consisted in bleeding pro¬ 
fusely, giving strong purgatives, injections, and diluents. They 
were all thrown away; the bleeding did not subdue the madness, 
and the purgatives never relaxed the bowels. 
From what I have seen and heard, it seems quite certain that 
cows are very fond both of white lead and of red lead. A ship 
carpenter in Dunbarton saw his cow empty a painter’s jug, con¬ 
taining white paint. She died quite mad. Cows have been caught 
licking both red and white paint off gates, pailings, and im¬ 
plements. 
It seems, also, that a small quantity will destroy life. Mr. 
Graham, of Blurthill, lost six cows in one week, several years 
ago. They had been fed from buckets newly and thickly coated 
with red paint. The buckets were used before they were entirely 
dry, and the cows all died roaring mad. Agriculturists and 
others ought, therefore, to be very careful of their cattle after the 
painter’s operations. Many a cow, I have no doubt, has been 
poisoned in this way, and the cause never suspected. 
