REPORTS of OASES. 
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Another case of importance came to my attention Aug. 22d. 
Messrs. Bartholof and Crawford, two well to do fanners and 
owners of large dairies, Mr. B. owning about 150 cows and Mr. 
C. foity-five, went to Buffalo stock yards and purchased forty-four 
cows, new milkers and springers. On their arrival here one of 
the cows could not be made to rise in the car and was taken home 
in a wagon ; the following day it died. The cows were divided, 
each taking half. Three days later Mr. C. lost one suddenly, 
supposed by him to have died from impaction of stomach. An¬ 
other cow died suddenly three days later. The next day I was 
called to hold the post-mortem. On examining the other cows, I 
fouud two that were passing a large amount of bloody urine, 
urinating frequently, stiff gait and not inclined to move, and the 
remainder of the new cows all showing symptoms of splenic ap 
poplexy, resembling those on the farm of Mr. Walling, with the 
exception that there were no passages of blood per rectum, or 
diarrhoea in any of these cases, but large amounts of bloody urine, 
which symptons were abscent in all of the other eases except 
those of Mr. Bartholof which were shipped with these cows. Mr. 
C. informed me that the last cow that died passed a large amount 
of bloody urine, so I directed my attention to examining the kid¬ 
neys, which I found almost as black as melanosis, very much en 
larged and easily broken down between the fingers. These cows 
were all noticed to urinate frequently and in large quantities. 
Treatment the same, pot. chi. and acid carb. The kidney com¬ 
plication was a new one to me, and I was at a loss to know what to 
prescribe in addition to the above, as the pulse was very weak. 
I did not think I would get any benefit from aconite, I was afraid 
of cathartics setting up internal complications; therefore I re¬ 
sorted to perchloride of iron and linseed gruel. These two cows 
both died. I held post-mortem immediately after death : the 
kidneys were about the same as in the aforementioned one. 
A calf from one of these cows, which survived, was taken 
away from its mother as soon as dropped, and fed on the milk from 
some of the old stock cows. Three days after it had a tempera¬ 
ture of 106°. I killed this calf and found spots of ecchymosis on 
the spleen, it being also congested and broken down at lower ex¬ 
tremity. 
