CASE OF DIFFICULT PARTURITION IN A MARE. 535 
the near hind leg, between the hock and stifle. The parts 
were fomented, and Lin. Saponis applied to all the enlarge- 
ments ; a weak injection of Zinci Sulph. and Tr. Opii was 
also applied twice in the day to the vagina and to the abscess, 
and two powders were left for night and morning, each con- 
sisting of Hyd. Chlor., gr. x, et Resina, $ij. 
28th. — Swelling increased in upper part of near thigh ; 
a puncture was made into it. The serous discharge which 
issues from the former punctures appears to have lowered the 
tumefaction to a slight extent. Pulse 66, and weak ; the 
mare eats, though sparingly, of green tares mixed with meal 
and oats alternately ; she moves only when made to do 
so, but the stiffness is no worse. If no fresh outbreak occurs, 
and the attack keeps confined principally to the near hind 
leg, good hopes are entertained that she will do right. Two 
balls, tonic and diuretic, were left for night and morning; 
liniment and injections reapplied. 
29th. — Early in the morning a messenger came to say 
that the mare was found bad with colic when the men rose 
from bed. We found her pawing in great pain, and from 
appearance of the bedding she had been ill several hours. 
The enlargements of the limbs had vanished ; pulse is close 
on 80, and weak ; faeces soft; urine high coloured, and clear; 
a slight discharge flows from the vagina, and a thin bloody 
discharge trickles from the near nostril. The mare lies down, 
after making two or three crouching attempts to do so, as if 
she were sore in the limbs ; she also often looks backward 
towards the flanks. Gave 01. Lini 1 lb., 01. Terebinth. $ij, 
Tr. Opii Enemas were likewise thrown up, and a hot 
oven plate applied over the abdomen. No relief being obtained, 
Tr. Aconit. gtt. xx was given with Sp. JEther. Nit. and Sp. 
Ammon. Arom. aa^ij, and two doses left to be repeated every 
three hours if the pain did not pass off ; it lulled her for a 
time, but the pain returned at intervals until the afternoon, 
when it left her. Lin. Terebinth, was rubbed in over the 
abdomen, and afterwards mustard, and also to the extremities. 
At 9 p.m. we found the mare free from abdominal pain ; 
bowels had acted three or four times, but the pulse had 
quickened to 92, and could not be counted excepting on the 
right side of the jaw ; the artery exceedingly thready; re- 
spiration quick and heavy, and somewhat difficult ; ex- 
tremities rather cold, ears very cold, the buccal membrane 
pale. Under the off eyelid there was a clear patch of blood- 
stain of a deep red colour, about the size of a shilling ; inside 
left nostril also there were several smaller ones visible, and 
one, the size of half a crown, just within the vagina on the 
