AN UNUSUAL CASE OF HERNIA IN A COW. 555 
rather buffy; and gave a pound of Glauber's salts, and half an 
ounce of nitre. 
8th. —The medicine during the night had operated freely ; her 
appetite good ; swelling much increased, extending into the udder, 
and forward towards the shoulder; rises with difficulty ; pulse 
regular, countenance cheerful; no indication of pain. 
Oth .—The swelling continues to extend, but no increase of heat 
on the surface, or alteration in the pulse. 
10th .—In the same state as yesterday, except that she could 
not rise without assistance. 
11th. — Much worse this morning; unable to rise with assist¬ 
ance ; great degree of fever ; anxious countenance ; pulsations 80 
in a minute. The swelling had extended forward to the front of 
the scapula, and backward as far as the hock, including in its 
range half the udder, w 7 hich w 7 as very hot. I bled until the ani¬ 
mal exhibited symptoms of fainting; kept a cloth on the udder 
wet with diluted camphorated spirit, which in tw r o hours had 
much reduced the external heat of that part; but as the heat of 
the body was much higher than natural, with laborious breath¬ 
ing and flushed nostrils, I began to fear there w r as still in¬ 
flammation of some part going forward, and (the state of the 
pulse being such as would not warrant further depletion), I de¬ 
termined to give the following medicine :—Glauber's salts, one 
pound; camphor and nitre, each half an ounce; and emetic 
tartar and digitalis, one drachm each, in two quarts of water; and 
to apply a sinapism to the ribs, after removing the hair. 
1 2th .—The medicine had operated on the bowels and the skin. 
The feverish state in which I had left her on the preceding night 
appeared much reduced ; the pulsations G8, but fuller and softer; 
the sinapism had done its duty, but there was no alteration in the 
state of the swelling: repeated the last medicine. 
13 th .—The digitalis w 7 as acting on the circulation; there w r ere 
distinct intermissions of the pulse; the swelling was gone front 
the shoulder and for some distance along the body, and likewise 
much reduced on the hinder quarter, but was unchanged on the 
udder: bowels open, appetite better. I gave half of the last dose 
of medicine. There was very evident alteration in her appearance 
this morning for the better: pulse 50, the strokes full, soft, and 
regular; dejections natural, appetite good, the swelling all gone 
from the body, and circumscribed on the udder. 
I now made a careful examination, and the result w r as (a confir¬ 
mation of my worst fears) a most singular case of hernia, and a 
descent of a part of the uterus into the groin, and even into the 
udder. The circumscribed enlargement consisted of the head of 
one calf which was dead, while the one which occupied the supe- 
