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called in popular parlance '"farcied leg" (though not allied in any way to 

 "farcy,'"') is termed "elephantiasis."' Sometimes abscesses form after tlie 

 subsidence of the fever, after A tirst or .a second attack ; and they are 

 generally confined to the tissues just beneath the skin. 



Not long ago we were called to a very acute case of weed in an 

 eight-year-old cart mare. The near hind leg and the off fore leg were 

 immensely swollen. The pain was most acute, and the breathing was short 

 and c[uickened. The subject of the attack had received about i}^ pecks of 

 oats Vvith cut straw and 2lbs of linseed cake every day. 



The great majority of cases of weed recover completely, but a thickened 

 limb may be left as a testimony to the former attack. Sometimes, as we 

 have mentioned, inflammation of the lungs, and also in rare cases bowel 

 complaints, may supervene in weed. 



We will now turn to the treatment of the disease. The animal should 

 be placed in a cool, well-ventilated, but not draughty loose box. In all 

 attacks, if the horse is in good condition and has received plenty of good 

 food and is not aged, we practice bleeding in the early stages ; and, indeed 

 some acute cases would probably prove fatal in spite of all iniernal 

 medicines unless this method of treatment were adopted. In the above case 

 the writer abstracted five quarts of blood from the jugular vein, and in a few 

 minutes the relief afforded was very marked. Bleeding can not be under- 

 taken by the unskilled. Some writers, we should mention, do not recommend 

 bleeding. The late Mr. D. Gresswell invariably practised it in acute attacks 

 in well-nourished animals, and many other authorities are also of the same 

 opinion. Of aloes we administer four or five drachms in the form of a ball 

 in the first instance, and we do not repeat this dose. Every four hours 

 during the fever, a draught containing : — of liquor ammonii acetatis four 

 ounces, of bicarbonate of potassiurii half an ounce, of nitric ether one ounce to 

 one ounce and a half, of Fleming's tincture of aconite (in bad cases) five 

 to seven drops, and of water to half a pint or a pint, may be administered. 



The affected limb should be fomented with warm water, and, if the pain 

 be severe, tincture of opium may be added to the water, in quantity about 

 one ounce of the tincture to a pint or a pint and a half of v.arm water, or 

 this may be applied as a lotion after each fomentation. 



Fomentations of tepid water should be continued for two hours at a 

 time, four or five times during the course of the twenty-four hours. The diet 

 must be carefully attended to. In the early stages a restricted and cooling 

 diet should be ordered ; but in the later stages, when debility -supervenes, the 

 food should be nutritous and well regulated. The limb may be supported by 

 bandages applied pretty firmly. When "the limb remains much thickened 

 •after the fever is over, a draught, consisting of iodide of potassium a drachm 

 and a half, of iodide of iron a drachm and a half, and of nitric ether one 

 ounce, may be given in half a pint of water three times daily.- 



"diabetes IxXSipidus,"' and "diabetes mellitus." 

 The next general disease due to dietetic errors is diabetes. Of this 

 malady there are two forms. The first termed diabetes insipidus, is fairly 



