DEATH OF A MARE AND COW FROM EATING WHEAT. 5 
violent sensitiveness, as much as if one was performing neuro¬ 
tomy. In this leg there was not the least swelling. I ordered 
fomentations and wet bandages to be kept on the legs, and gave 
some febrifuge medicine. 
17/A.—The off fore leg is not so much swelled, but they are 
both still very sensitive. 
6 P.M. —Still improving: the nerve is more sensitive on the 
inside of the leg. 
18/A.—Better—swelling much less. 
19/A.—Swelling all gone, and the tendons and ligament quite 
clear and distinct; but the nerve on each leg is still very sensi¬ 
tive on being touched. 
In a few days after the sensitiveness and lameness had 
subsided. 
DEATH OF A MARE AND COW FROM EATING WHEAT. 
By THE SAME. 
On'M onday morning, the 24th August, 1846, I was sent for 
by Mr. Jones, of Ightfield, to see a half-bred mare and a cow 
that had eaten, it was said, from a measure and a half to two 
measures of wheat, on the previous Friday night. 
It appears that, on the previous Friday, the owner had been 
at Whitchurch market, and that, on returning at night, the mare 
was turned into a croft, at the back of the house, with a cow. 
Adjoining this croft there was a barn belonging to the Rev. John 
Justice, wherein was contained a large quantity of thrashed 
old wheat, heaped against the wooden walls, wherein were 
numerous crevices, through which the wheat had run out; and 
there is no doubt but that the cow and mare gathered it up from 
the ground, so that other would follow through the crevices. 
From the appearance of the heap it was thought that nearly 
two measures had escaped, and had been eaten : though of this 
quantity I rather doubt. 
8AM —From the time of the mare eating it, up to the present, 
no violent symptoms had appeared, but she would not eat, nor 
had any thing come through her. She is now standing still; 
pulse not to be felt at the jaw, though a weak one is discover¬ 
able at the chest. R. aloes in sol. 3iij, ol. ricini §xij, spt. tereb. 
§ij M. clyster. 
9 A.M. — Give aloes 3vj, cum pit. jam. 3 ‘iv. 
12 M. —About the same. Lame on the off fore leg. 
3 P.M. —The same. Give spt. ammon. aromatic. §ij. 
