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it in this month’s Journal, instead of continuing my ob¬ 
servations on the leguminous plants. 
On Friday evening, June 28th, I860, I was requested to 
see a cow, the property of the Countess Wratislaw, of 
Ru^by. The animal was eight or nine years old. of the 
Alderney breed, and had been in possession of the countess 
for some considerable time, without having had any previous 
illness. . 
The attention of the servant was first attracted by finding, 
on the morning before I saw her, that the cow gave a much 
less quantity of milk than usual, and she appeared dull. 
Finding her worse in the evening, I was requested to see 
her. I found her standing in one corner of the paddock 
(and from which place the servant informed me she had not 
moved many yards all the day), showing the following 
symptoms:—looking vacantly around, eyes protruding, 
pupils much dilated, pulse 120 and oppressed, breathing 
increased and laboured—resembling that of a badly broken- 
winded horse—ears cold, muzzle dry, no secretion of milk 
since the morning, refusing both food and water; and when 
made to move, doing so with a reeling, staggering gait. 
With some difficultv the animal was removed to a shed : 
and being somewhat struck with the peculiar symptoms 
exhibited, I was induced to ask the attendant if the cow 
could have eaten of any injurious shrub, such as the yew, or 
rhododendron, &c. ? I was informed that such could not 
have been the case, as the various shrubs, with which the 
paddock was surrounded, were securely fenced off; but the 
gardener coming up at the time, said that, much to his 
annoyance, the cow, during the previous night, had bitten off 
and eaten most of his hollyhocks. I examined the place, and 
found that, by reaching over, she had managed to bite off all 
the sterns, leaves, and flowers, on the upper part of a 
considerable number of plants. I carefully examined the 
other shrubs, but found that the animal could not get at 
them, 1 therefore came to the conclusion that the symptoms 
exhibited were produced bv the hollyhock, although plants in 
the ec natural order” to which this belongs are not considered 
to possess any injurious properties. 
I at once gave a diffusible stimulant, and in two hours 
after a brisk purgative. The next morning I found her in 
much the same state; the staggering, indeed, if anything, 
was worse. During the night the bowels had acted slightly, 
the faeces being fluid, of a black colour, and possessing a 
very offensive odour. I repeated the stimulant, and applied 
a blister to the back of the head. 
