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POISONING OP A COW AND TWO STEERS. 
I had them all placed in a cow-house, and gave to each a 
purgative, composed of— 
Magnes. Sulpli., Ibj; 
01. Crotoni, u\x. 
and ordered them to be drenched with gruel. 
May 12th.—The unfavorable symptoms of the steers are 
somewhat abated, and the medicine is acting, but those of 
the cow are rather worse, the medicine not having acted, and 
the fasces being still black and watery. I gave to her another 
dose of purgative medicine, and I felt inclined to use the 
stomach pump. 
To each steer I gave— 
Spt. Ammon. Aromat., f^ij; 
Spt. AEtli. Nit., f^j; in liaustus. 
to be repeated at night. 
May 13th.—A slight improvement in the cow, the medicine 
having acted, and the faeces being more healthy. 
Gave Liq. Ammon, fort. *ij, largely diluted with gruel. 
The steers are evidently better; the appetite is returning, 
and the alvine evacuations are becoming natural. 
Repeated the stimulants as before. 
14th.—A still further improvement in both the cow and 
the steers. I ordered the same agents to be given all as be¬ 
fore. Diet to be of a succulent nature. 
15th.—All are doing well, and one steer has been again 
turned to pasture. The cow also is much better, the rumina¬ 
tion is returning, and the moisture on her muzzle. 
Repeated the medicines to both remaining in the cow¬ 
house, and requested the owner to continue to give them 
gruel. 
16th.—The other steer turned out to grass ; the cow is con¬ 
valescent. Discontinued medicines. 
In concluding, I beg to state that these cases are by no 
means unfrequent in this neighbourhood about the spring of 
the year. 
I should be very happy to glean further information re¬ 
specting the above plant from some of your numerous corres¬ 
pondents, for I do not think that Mr. Watson has alluded to 
it yet in his interesting papers on botany as applied to veteri¬ 
nary science. 
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[All cases of poisoning, by whatever agent, are worthy 
of being recorded. In the pages of this Journal will be found 
many instances of the injurious effects of colchicum, both on 
