564 DEATH OF A COW FROM A NEEDLE NEAR THE HEART. 
Treatment. —Tinct. Rhus, three-drop doses every three 
hours. 
May loth.—Slightly improved. Tinct. Cuprum, three- 
drop doses every three hours. 
— 19th.—Very much improved, only one fit in the twenty- 
four hours. 
— 20th.—Ordered Tinct. Belladonna, three-drop doses 
three times a day. 
The diet consisted of the plainest and simplest nourish¬ 
ment, all hard and indigestible food being withheld. 
June 21st.—A letter received from the owner contained 
the following remark : —“ The pug-dog is perfectly well and 
has had no return of fits.” 
This case was placed in the first instance in the hands of 
an unqualified man (assuming the title of M.R.C.V.S.) 
who ordered the animal to be killed. 
DEATH OF A COW FROM THE PRESENCE OF A 
NEEDLE IN THE VICINITY OF THE HEART. 
By Frederick L. Gooch, Veterinary Student. 
I was requested on the 14th April to attend to a red 
short-horn cow, the property of Major Micklethwaite, of 
Taverham Hall, Norfolk. On examination I found that the 
animal was greatly emaciated, the milk much decreased in 
quantity, and the appetite diminished. The pulse also was 
weak, but the temperature was normal. She did not rumi¬ 
nate, and a slight groaning accompanied the respiration. 
Treatment .—Vegetable tonics with diffusible stimulants 
were administered, but very little benefit, except that rumi¬ 
nation returned for a short time. At different times she was 
very much constipated, to relieve which aperients were admi¬ 
nistered. After attending her for about a fortnight a slight 
improvement was observed, and I did not see her again for 
some time. 
About the 6th or 7th of June I was again called in, when 
I found her much more emaciated, and all the symptoms 
greatly aggravated. She gradually became worse, and about 
the 10th she died. There were no indications of violent 
disease until about three days before her death. 
On a 'post-mortem examination being made, a large sack¬ 
ing needle about four inches long, was found to have pierced 
the diaphragm and the parietal pericardium. The eye of 
