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CASE OF INFLAMMATORY (EDEMA IN BOTH 
HIND LEGS OF A MARE. 
By J. E. Scriven, Aberford, Yorkshire. 
In perusing the Veterinarian of last month I saw, in the 
essay on “ Inflammatory (Edema,” read by Mr. W. A. 
Taylor at a meeting of the Lancashire Veterinary Medical 
Association, a statement to the effect that inflammatory 
oedema generally attacks one of the extremities, and that in 
the majority of instances it selects and confines itself to one 
of the hind legs. Allowing such to be a rule, I am desirous 
of recording a case which came under my notice last month, 
showing there are exceptions to the rule. 
On the 14th of January, 1871, I was requested to visit a 
draught mare, five years old, the property of Mr. T. Knapton, 
farmer, Barwick. I accordingly attended, and found the 
patient very restless and shivering. Pulse slightly accele- 
rated, respiration increased, swelling of the right hind leg, 
and pain on pressure on the inguinal region, accompanied 
with slight symptomatic fever. 
I at once diagnosed the case to be one of lymphatic inflam- 
mation. 
Treatment . — After placing the animal in a good ventilated 
stable, I administered a 5vj dose of physic, and ordered the 
swollen limb to be well fomented with hot water, the body 
clothed and the animal's diet to consist of bran mashes and 
hay-tea. 
January 15th. — I found the mare much worse ; pulse 
accelerated, hard, and oppressed ; the left hind leg was now 
much swollen and painful to the touch. She refuses all food ; 
is slightly purged, the faeces being slimy. 
Administered Tinct. Aconite v\x in water, to be followed 
with smaller doses every six hours. Ordered hot fomentations 
both hind legs. I also prescribed—- 
Aloes, ^xij ; 
Pot ; Nit., Jiij ; 
Lini Sem. Pulv., ^iij ; 
Sapo Mollis, q. s. pro vj balls. 
One to be given every night and morning. 
16th. — Animal appears a little easier ; has drunk a little 
hay-tea; pulse not so quick, and extremities less painful. 
17th. — Animal continues to improve; eats a little bran 
