514 FORKED WHEN NEAR CALVING. 
separating the lobes, and proceeded as with the anterior 
lobes, tying up the branches of the epigastric artery, some 
uniting with those of the anterior lobes, and others which 
empty into the iliac veins. The wound was then spunged 
clear, dressed with compound tincture of myrrh, the skin 
being then drawn over by means of sutures. She was now 
suffered to get up, when a dose of physic was administered. 
The wound suppurated, and went on as well as could be 
expected; and in six weeks from the performance of the 
operation, only a very small wound could be seen in the 
centre; while her limbs assumed their natural size. She 
was turned out again into a good pasture, but did not seem 
to thrive as she ought to have done. 
On the 24th of June, a messenger was dispatched to inform 
me that the cow had again begun to swell. On examining 
her, I found a large abscess had formed in the flank, very 
large and deep. I at first made a careful incision, large 
enough to admit of the passage of the finger, and, when 
satisfied it was not a piece of intestine, I enlarged the orifice 
through the muscles, and evacuated about three pints of 
thick fetid matter. I found, on examination, that the ab¬ 
scess had seated itself between the transversalis abdominis 
and internal oblique muscles. The wound was kept open 
and clean for a few days, and it speedily healed. She was 
again turned out, and has now made a very good beast. 
Case IV .—Forked when near Calving . 
On the 4th of August, I was requested to attend a cow 
of the short-horn breed, the property of Mr. Wm. Timm, 
Blyth. She was a very good milker, in good condition, three 
weeks from calving, which would have made her fifth calf. 
She was bought on the 26th of July. Being brought into 
the yard one day, she was forked on the right side by 
another beast, and was perceived to be unwell three or four 
days afterwards. When my attention was called to her, I 
found her pulse 65, respirations very little disturbed, ap¬ 
petite not much impaired, but occasionally moaning, and 
having a glairy discharge from the vagina, of a healthy 
character. There was no abdominal pain, nor any symptoms 
of injury done to the uterus. The bowels were rather cos¬ 
tive. I administered Magnes. Sulph. ^xij ; Zing. 3j- 
Aug. 5.—-Pulse 70; still eats a little; moaning more fre¬ 
quent ; rather irritable; udder not much enlarged; the sacro- 
sciatic ligament a little relaxed; extremities their natural 
