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REPORTS OF CASES. 
IMPACTION OF OMASUM. 
By S. C. Ore, Y.S., Manhattan, Kansas. 
On the evening- of July 19th, I was called to the State 
Agricultural College Farm to see a valuable short horn cow, 
seven years old and weighing 1400 pounds. Upon examina¬ 
tion I found symptoms of constipation, with probably slight 
impaction of the omasum, from eating the dry grass in the 
pasture, but did not consider the case a serious one. I gave 
epsotn salts 2 pounds, pulv. Jam. ginger £ ounce, nux. vom. 
1^ drachms, in about 3 quarts of water, and ordered a little 
bran mash and plenty of drinking water. On the evening of 
the 20th I went back, to find no change. I then gave 1 pint 
raw oil (all I had with me) and 10 drops croton oil, and or¬ 
dered walking exercise, with occasional injections per rectum 
for several hours. On the morning of the 21st, there still be¬ 
ing no action from the medicine, we gave her 1 ^ pounds ep- 
som salts, 10 drops croton oil and 1 pint of molasses mixed 
with warm water, and ordered 2 quarts linseed tea to be given 
as a drench, and warm water per rectum every hour, and walk¬ 
ing exercise the last quarter of each hour through the day, 
and the same treatment every two hours through the night. 
On the morning of the 22d there still being no action from 
the medicine, we gave 2 pounds of epsom salt, ^ pound sodium 
chloride, 40 drops croton oil and 1^ pints molasses in warm 
water, and continued the drenches, injections per rectum and 
walking exercises alternated with kneading the stomach every 
two or three hours during the day-time, and resting at night. 
On the evening of the 24th there was 'a slight action of the 
bowels, and on the morning of the 25th a copious discharge. 
The cow now began to regain her appetite and complete re¬ 
covery soon took place. During the treatment the cow was 
allowed all the water she would drink. She would eat a lit¬ 
tle bran occasionally and did not seem to suffer much pain. 
DOUBLE FECUNDATION. 
By C. Bkuden, D.Y.S., New York. 
On Juty 24th, 1890, at 6 A. M., a gentleman called at my 
house, requesting me to go at once to Harlem, and see a mare 
