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up for the night. Next morning there was little improve- 
ment; respirations over 80, and temperature 103°5°. 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 
visit, the horse turned round in his stall and dropped down 
dead ! 
‘ History oy 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 turns on the second fore- 
noon, 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 
travelling 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). 
