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FUNGOUS EXCRESCENCE IN A COW. 
passed her bowels. Rumen still distended. Gave magnesiae 
sulph. §x, zingiberis rad. gj, carui seminum §ij, with directions to 
throw up an injection of warm water every two hours, and to let 
her have nothing but gruel until her bowels responded. 
28 th .—This morning my employer met me, telling me it was all 
over with the cow, as she had begun to purge, and part of her 
bowels had come away. On examining the faeces, of which there 
was an abundance, I found three or four lumps of coagulated blood 
as large as a marble, and a quantity of inspissated mucus. The 
swelling had gone down. Pulse 60, and weak. Her appetite was 
good, and she looked very cheerful. Sent two powders, each 
containing gentian, §js, zingib. §j, sulphur gij, one to be given 
immediately, the other on the following day. To be allowed a 
little hay, but no green food. 
30 th .—I saw her again : the faeces were of their natural con¬ 
sistence, and only occasionally streaked with blood; still she stood 
in the same position as when I first saw her. Her rumen was 
again filled with gas, and she appeared to have but little appetite. 
I now told the owner I had but slight hope of her recovery, as 
I thought there was either some stricture in the oesophagus, or 
else some foreign body in the stomach. He, however, expressed 
a wish that I should try remedy a little further; so I gently passed 
a probang, which did not appear to meet with any obstruction, 
when at length a great quantity of imprisoned gas escaped. Gave 
chloride of lime 3ij, ginger §j, caraway seeds §j, in some warm 
water, and directed the same dose to be given in the evening, if 
she was at all swollen. 
31s/.—This morning a messenger came to tell me that the sturk 
had begun to swell again almost immediately after I left her, and 
that she had the preceding evening, after eating a little mash, 
ejected a considerable quantity of it again. This strengthened my 
previous suspicion that there was some foreign body in the 
stomach. Not being able to go up to see her, I told him, as it was 
a fine day, he might bring her gently down to my place, which he 
accordingly did. She looked very cheerful on arriving here, but 
kicked at her abdomen occasionally, and was very much swollen, 
although her bowels were regular. Her pulse had got up to 70, 
and was full; so I bled her to the amount of three quarts, blistered 
the whole surface of her abdomen, and gave spt. ammon. arom. §ij, 
tinct. opii Jss, ol. lini 1 lb. 
Sept. 1st .—She appeared very much better. The blister had 
acted well, and the swelling had nearly gone down. From this 
date till the 6th she gradually improved, her different functions 
performing regularly. 1 now began to congratulate myself, thinking 
there was no doubt but my patient would rally : the hope proved 
