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In addition to this the colt was fed one-half 

 gallon of fresh milk, one-half dozen eggs and one- 

 fourth pound of sugar, well-mixed, twice daily, 

 and all the hay and grain he wanted. After three 

 and one-half days he got up on his own accord 

 and has been doing well ever since. I noticed 

 a decided change for the better after giving the 

 saline injection and had not the distance from 

 my office been so great I would have given a 

 second injection. 



At another time I was called to see a two-year- 

 old mule that was bleeding badly, a result of 

 castration by an empiric. I checked the hemor- 

 rhage externally, but the colt died twelve hours 

 later from internal hemorrhage. I was called to 

 this case in the night and the weather was so dis- 

 agreeable and the lack of conveniences such, that 

 I did not throw this colt and secure and ligate the 

 artery — ^the only proper procedure. The animal 

 died in spite of all medication though I now be- 

 lieve that full physiological doses of atropine hy- 

 podermically would have checked this as it will 

 most other internal hemorrhage. 



