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fall. The back is roached; the flanks are tucked up, and the legs widely 
separated, as though the horse was aware of its inability to support its 
body. 
The treatment consists in disturbing the sufferer as little as possible; 
in acting upon the report received, for in a case of this kind it is hardly 
credible there should be any mistake. Administer, as gently as it can 
be done, two drachms of acetate of lead in half a pint of cold water, 
or as a ball, if one can be delivered. If this has no effect, in a quarter 
of an hour, or sooner should the symptoms demand haste, repeat the 
dose, adding, however, one ounce of laudanum or two drachms of pow- 
dered opium. Give two more drinks or balls of the like composition; 
but should these be followed by no beneficial result, change the medicine 
after the administration of one ounce of acetate of lead. 
When the indications are not alarming, the horse may be left for a 
couple of hours, with strict orders that the animal be watched, but on 
no account disturbed. Should, however, activity be required, obtain 
some of the coldest water, and have several pailfuls dashed from a 
height upon the loins. After this inject some of the same fluid, allow- 
ing the water to flow freely forth from the anus—the object only being 
to procure the advantages of excessive cold. For medicine, a trial 
may be made of the ergot of rye. Pour on to four drachms of the 
drug half a pint of boiling water, and, when cold, add one ounce of 
laudanum and four ounces of dilute acetic acid—not vinegar, as that 
always contains sulphuric acid, which would counteract the action of 
the lead. Two drinks, two enemas, (each lasting twenty minutes,) and 
any quantity of water upon the loins will serve for the second hour. 
If these remedies have produced no change, all further treatment 
must be suspended for eight hours, at the expiration of which period 
the treatment may be resumed, and the previous measures repeated. 
Should the hemorrhage have ceased, leave the horse undisturbed for 
the night. On the following day, if no blood has been noticed, have 
the animal gently led under cover. Then proceed to examine the horse 
per rectum. If the kidneys are not enlarged, hardened, or sensitive, 
and if the bladder is without stone, but of its natural thickness, there is 
every prospect of a favorable termination. 
Should the bladder be thickened, adopt the treatment laid down for 
cystitis; if stone is discovered, an operation is indicated; be the kid- 
neys disorganized, the case is hopeless, If none of these are present, 
then any of the following medicines may be experimented with, it 
always being uncertain which will prove beneficial :— 
Extract of catechu. . . . . . . In one-ounce doses daily. 
Strong infusion of oak bark . . . . Three pints daily. 
