CAS FRACTURE OF THE VERTEBRA IN A COW. 
adding twenty grains of the croton seeds powdered ; and ordered 
linseed tea or water gruel to be given every four hours. I pro¬ 
ceeded thus cautiously, because I did not know what medicine 
had been administered by the empiric. 
9th. —Symptoms nearly the same ; the appetite almost gone ; 
yet rumination is not totally suspended. There is occasional 
grating of the teeth, and she lies down frequently. A great deal 
of tumefaction about the rowel, which emits a copious discharge. 
Take half a pound of Epsom salts, three drachms of powdered 
digitalis, and one ounce of powdered ginger; mix. A third part 
to be given in a quart of oatmeal gruel every six hours; the 
clysters and other treatment remaining the same. 
\9thj 8 A.M.— The appetite gone; rumination suspended; de¬ 
bility apparent; pulse and breathing the same. She- continues 
to strain violently, although not so often; and the bowels are 
freely responding to the action of the purgative medicine. The 
urine is changed in colour from a black to a dark brown. The 
rowel has swelled enormously, and a copious discharge of serous 
fluid issues from it. Take of Epsom salts six ounces; powdered 
digitalis, two drachms ; powdered gentian, two ounces; and pow¬ 
dered ginger, an ounce. Let a third part be given every six 
hours. The other treatment the same. 
10 p.M. —The urine altered in colour from a dark to a light 
brown; the number of pulsations in a minute the same, but not 
so powerful; the straining has ceased, and also the grating of the 
teeth. The feces sometimes pultaceous, and sometimes watery : 
debility greater, and the other symptoms the same. Omit giving 
the third dose of the preceding medicine, and take, instead of it, 
extract of belladonna, half an ounce; powdered digitalis, two 
drachms; liquor, ammon. acet., eight ounces ; and spirit of nitrous 
ether, two ounces. Give one-half of it immediately, and the other 
half twelve hours afterwards. 
11^^, 10 p.M. —Decidedly better ; appetite returning ; urine 
of its natural colour; and the quantity of milk, which hitherto 
during the disease had been about two quarts at a meal, has in¬ 
creased to five or six. The bowels still open, and the rowel dis¬ 
charging freely. Pulse lowered down to 90 beats in a minute, 
and feeble: other symptoms the same, except the presence of 
thirst, which until now had been absent. Repeat the last me¬ 
dicine. 
\2tli. —Convalescent; appetite good ; rumination returned ; 
pulse 75; breathing quieter; urine of its natural colour; feces 
pultaceous; quantity of milk greater; while the animal is re¬ 
gaining strength, and the swelling in the dewlap subsiding. 
