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APOPLEXY IN A PREGNANT HEIFER. 
three hours, the legs to be well rubbed and bandaged, the 
body to be moderately clothed. 
7th.—This morning I found the horse’s bowels freely 
opened, and everything appeared to be progressing favorably. 
After administering some cordial medicine, 1 left orders 
with the groom to allow the animal soft mashes, with a little 
boiled linseed as diet, and give moderate exercise. 
8th.—The horse, this morning, appeared quite well. I 
gave a little more cordial medicine, and informed the owner 
that his horse would not require any more attendance, and 
that I considered him fit for work again. 
July lltli.—I was this morning summoned to attend my 
late patient. Mr. Upright having sent him to my infirmary, 
he was turned into a large loose box. He was exhibiting 
symptoms of inflammation of the bowels, accompanied with 
severe abdominal pains, which symptoms continued unabated 
until death terminated his sufferings, on Wednesday morning, 
July 13th. 
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon 1 made a post-mortem exa¬ 
mination, and found an enormous calculus in the caecum. 
It was of the extraordinar}’’ weight of 26f lbs. Its circum¬ 
ference, lengthways, is 32 inches, the lesser circumference 
28 inches. The composition of it appears to be the triple 
phosphates mixed with oat-hairs. 
[We thank Mr. Austen for his promise that he will en¬ 
deavour to obtain this calculus for us. We believe it to be 
the largest on record. Two of the larger ones in the 
museum of the College weigh respectively 19^ lbs. avoir, and 
15 J lbs. They are constituted wholly of the ammonio- 
magnesian phosphate.] 
APOPLEXY IN A PREGNANT HEIEER. 
By R. Prentice, Y.S., Longford. 
July 7 14th, 1859.—My attendance was requested to a 
short-horned heifer in calf, three years old, which was taken 
suddenly ill. She was the property of the Hon. L. H. King 
Harman, of this county. On my arrival I found her suffering 
from an affection of the brain, manifested by her wild and 
frightened appearance; moving her head and resting it back 
upon her shoulders; rolling of the eyes, pupils dilated, 
