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alles ip popular parlance “ farcied’ leg” (though not allied in any way to 
farcy,”) is termed “elephantiasis.” Sometimes abscesses form after the 
subsidence of the fever, after a first 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 quickened. The subject of the attack had received about 134 pecks of 
oats with 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 alk 
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 internal 
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 potassium 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 warm 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 bé 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 INSIPIDUS,” 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” 
