SUPPOSED DEATH OF COWS FROM SP11AY OF BULLETS. 509 
The case is one over which medicine could have no control, 
and certainly not at the time Mr. Overed was called in; 
nevertheless, as I have before stated, it is highly instructive, 
and I hope Mr. Overed will not fail to place on record other 
cases of interest that he may meet with in his practice, of 
which I predict he will have his full share. 
REPORT ON THE RESULTS OF THE CHEMICAL 
ANALYSES MADE IN CONNECTION WITH THE 
SUPPOSED DEATH OF THREE COWS FROM 
GATHERING UP THE SPRAY OF RIFLE BUL¬ 
LETS : RECORDED BY MR. WATSON, IN THE 
MAY NUMBER OF THE VETERINARIAN. 
Bv Professor Tuson. 
* 
The readers of this Journal will remember that Mr. Walker 
Watson communicated, in May last, the particulars of a case 
of considerable novelty, interest, and importance, in which it 
was thought that the death of three cows had been occasioned 
by their picking up small fragments of lead while feeding in 
a pasture adjoining the Rugby rifle-butts. Subsequently to 
the publication of the communication here referred to, another 
cow, that had been kept in the same pasture as the three 
others, likewise died. The symptoms prior to death, and the 
results of the post-mortem examination, were the same in all 
the animals. The viscera of one of the cows that died last, 
as well as other matters named hereafter, were entrusted to 
me by Mr. Watson and Mr. Mullins (the owner of the cows) 
for analysis, and thinking my report, which I furnished to 
those gentlemen, would be an important appendix to Mr. 
Watson's published remarks, I do myself the pleasure, by 
the kind permission of both gentlemen above named, of 
placing it before the readers of the Veterinarian, 
Chemical Laboratory, 
Royal Veterinary College, 
London ; June 23, 1864. 
To Mr. Walker Watson, M.R.C.V.S. 
Sir, —Agreeably to your request, I have chemically exa¬ 
mined the undermentioned viscera of a cow, as well as the 
bullet-spray, which I received from you June 9th, 186'4, and 
