INFLAMMATORY AFFECTIONS 281 



up for the night. Next morning there was little improve- 

 ment; respirations over 80, and temperature 103 -5 s . Con- 

 tinue same treatment. Second morning, horse apparently 

 easier; temperature 102-5°, but very difficult respiration; 

 laxative had operated during the night ; ordered diffusible 

 stimulants. About two hours and a half after my last 

 \isit, the horse turned round in his stall and dropped down 

 dead ! 



' History of the Horse. — He belonged to an extensive 

 horse-hiring establishment ; was purchased a short time 

 before for £60 — a long price for a post-horse — had recently 

 suffered and been off work from some " severe cold " ; was 

 taken out, and did forty-seven miles of a journey the day 

 before I saw him; on forenoon of the day on which he was 

 attacked he did two or three short turns, and then twenty- 

 one miles of a journey in the afternoon, during which he 

 became so ill as scarcely to be able to conclude the twenty- 

 one miles ; this was the last turn he was to do. He was a 

 grand stepper, and no doubt was pushed a little during this 

 final journey, as the driver intended, after a short rest, to 

 finish off with the twenty-six miles between this and home. 

 With the short turn on the second forenoon, this would 

 have been over 100 miles in less than two days, with a 

 horse just out of a severe cold!* 



2. * Whilst attending a patient on a farm on September 5 

 last my attention was called to a cart-horse, five years of 

 age, that had been castrated in the standing position by a 

 traveling castrator about ten days previously. 



' I found the animal presenting the following symptoms : 

 Head down, blowing hard, very dull, and disinclined to 

 move, temperature 105° F., hard, rapid, slightly irregular 

 pulse, membranes injected, appetite lost; scrotum, sheath, 

 and penis tremendously swollen, castration wounds un- 

 healthy, and exuding a thin, reddish-brown discharge of a 

 most foetid odour. 



' The next day well-marked symptoms of laminitis were 

 present. I finally ceased attending him about the middle 



* Veterinary Journal, vol. xvii., p. 314 (A. E. Macgillivray), 



