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nine ont of a hundred of these trifling cases do, her arm has taken to swell 

 again, and is become tense and hard and warm. 



Sth. — To-day there is plainly discoverable to the feel, in the course of the 

 plat vein, corded tumefactions, which seem to me to be enlarged lymph- 

 atics ; the lymphatic irritation being combined with faschial inflammation of 

 the whole arm. She now halts exceedingly in her walk, and cannot bear to 

 have her injured member handled or compressed. There is but little con- 

 stitutional disturbance, and her appetite continues good. A trial was made 

 to confine a poultice upon the part after the fomentation, but, in the end, it 

 proved fruitless : the weight of the poultice and the movements of the animal 

 continually displaced it. 



\Otli. — The tumefaction has extended both upward and downward. Take 

 blood from her jugular, keep her bowels acting, and be unremitting in the use 

 of fomentations. 



15^^. — The swelling is much reduced. Use cold discutient lotion and 

 diuretic medicine. 



\%th. — There is remaining a cord of tumefaction in the axilla, taking the 

 course of the plat vein, but it has lost its morbid sensibility. I cannot, by 

 the most careful examination, satisfactorily determine upon the existence of 

 matter deep-seated. Apply the acetum cantharidis to the cord. 



\dtli. — The blister has resolved our doubts. There is now evident fluctua- 

 tion in the cord. A lancet plunged deeply into it let out some well-con- 

 cocted pus. Another abscess was found close up against the sternum. Sub- 

 sequent probing proved that the matter had a good deal under-run the faschia. 

 Foment, &c., as before. 



21 5^. — She may now, in a gentle manner, resume her walking exercise, and 

 have a weak solution of sulphate of zinc injected into the punctures in her 

 arm. From this date she went on doing well, without any relapse, and was, on 

 the 19th of July following, sent to her duty. 



Notwithstanding the case just related appeared to be one shew- 

 ing the possibility of disease of the lymphatics arising from an 

 ordinary cause, yet at no stage of it did it assume the aspect of 

 farcy ; — never could it have been mistaken by an experienced 

 hand for farcy. I, therefore, feel little hesitation in coming to the 

 practical conclusion, that the lymphatic system of the horse derives 

 disturbance producing phenomena of a certain well-known cha- 

 racter y)'o?n no other cause hut farcy or glanders ; a fact which 

 militates much in favour of the doctrine of a specific poison or 

 virus. Were it otherwise, did common irritants annoy the absorb- 

 ent system, or did that system contract disease simply under un- 



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