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loins and abdomen ; kept the cow on her sternum, fixed her horns 
to the stall, drew off the milk frequently, and emptied the blad¬ 
der and rectum at short intervals. But when you have done your 
best, he said, you will often be disgusted at your want of success 
in treating this disease. Treatment to be successful and satis¬ 
factory, must be preventive. He was in hopes that the essayist 
might have discovered a cure for it. 
Mr. Storrar said that his own opinion of the pathology of this 
disease, was thoroughly at ono with the theory enunciated by the 
essayist, and agreed with Mr. Taylor, that our principal aim — 
w T here this disease was prevalent—should be directed towards its 
prevention. In his own practice he gave stimulants and purga¬ 
tives, of the former he preferred ammonia to alcohol, as he con¬ 
sidered that the sedative reaction of alcohol was detrimental in 
this disease. 1st. Because it was safer to administer, and 2nd, 
because it went directly into the rumen where it was wanted. 
Mr. Moore , sen ., said that he had not given purgative medicine 
either as a preventive or a cure in this disease for twenty years 
—the bowels are only paralysed, and if you restore the nervous 
system, the muscles will soon act. His practice was to give 
Aconitum and Belladonna alternately, in the first or excited 
stage. If tympanitic, he gave Ammonium Causticum, and in the 
comatose stage he gave Arsenicum, and when the animal began 
to recover he administered Nux Vomica. He had tried galvanism, 
and found that by applying it across the loins, he could disperse 
the gas in the stomach, but he had experienced difficulty in apply¬ 
ing it effectually in this disease. 
Mr. Stevenson said he had also tried galvanism in the treat¬ 
ment of this disease, but he had failed to do so effectively or even 
with any result in the comatose state. 
Mr. Barnes said that he agreed with the essayist as to the 
pathology of the disease, he had seen a great many cases of the 
disease, and had been fairly successful in the treatment of it, his 
recoveries being about 50 per cent. His practice was to bleed in 
the first stage, to administer stimulants combined with slight 
aperients, and to apply stimulating applications to the spine, and 
a severe blister to the pole. He attended to the animal, generally, 
as spoken to by the previous speakers. He had, however, often 
experienced great difficulty in getting the cows up after the dis¬ 
ease had subsided, and related some cases where the muscles of 
the hind quarters were almost a mass of degenerated tissue. 
Mr. Elam thanked the essayist for the time and trouble that 
he had bestowed upon his paper, and hoped that he would agree 
to allow it to be published in the journals. In his own practice, for 
this disease, he had formerly tried purgatives, but he now mainly 
depended on the administration of stimulants, principally Ammon. 
