556 AN UNUSUAL CASE HERNIA IN A COW. 
rior position was evidently alive. I gave the owner a detail of 
the result of my examination, and informed, him nothing more 
could be done for her at present, unless inflammation should again 
appear. I pointed out the very great danger there was in giving 
her stimulating drinks for fellon, as I knew he had been advised 
to do, and recommended him to supply her with what food she 
required, and wait until her full time was come. 
I did not see her again until the 19th, when I found her much 
changed for the worse : pulse 58, but irregular; cold extremities ; 
eating very little, but moaning and grinding her teeth in a very 
distressing manner. 
I opened a vein, but, after taking about 2R>s of blood, the rapid 
sinking of the pulse warned me to close it. As her bowels were 
regular, I administered an ounce of powdered bark. She calved 
the next day, easier, and with less assistance than, from the nature 
of the case, could have been supposed : the first calf was alive, the 
second dead, and, from its appearance, had been from the time 
I was first called to see her. The uterus contracted in the usual 
time, and the bowels descended into the place it had occupied in 
the udder. The animal rallied no more, but languished until the 
third day, and died. As there was no hope after the descent of 
the bowels, no medicine was administered. 
Post-mortem examination .—Of this I cannot give such a par¬ 
ticular detail as I could have wished. The butcher who took off 
the skin had opened her, and removed the bowels when I arrived 
at the place : his account was, that the portion of the bowels that 
had fallen down was in such a state from gangrene, that it would 
not bear removing. The uterus and all the other viscera were 
quite sound. 
Remarks .—I learned afterwards, that from the 13th to the 17th, 
there was no alteration in her appearance, when she had a power¬ 
ful stimulating drink given, was slung for six hours, but having no 
power over her hind quarters, was gently laid down again: the 
udder was fomented with hot water so effectively as to remove the 
skin. She never ruminated after the fellon drink was given, and ate 
very little. 
Thus I present your readers with the particulars of the unsuc¬ 
cessful treatment of (as far as my experience extends^) a very rare 
and singular case. I very much regret not being present when 
the butcher opened her, as I cannot give any account of the ex¬ 
tent of the gangrene* nor the position of the viscera. I put the 
following questions, from a desire that some of your talented cor¬ 
respondents may examine this report of the case, and present us 
with their opinion in your valuable publication:—What was the 
probable cause of the swelling in the first instance, and its subse- 
