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cloth over it. Bran tea to drink. Do not clothe too much, — this is 
a mistake ; it is so proved by the great benefit derived from clipping 
our patient if he lias thick coat. I never put bandages on the legs, 
or hood on the head. If the ears are cold I always stimulate them ; 
I attribute great importance to this. If my patient is not better in 
three or four days, I stimulate the sides daily with some liniment, 
and after half an hour put on the hot rugs again. This is the most 
successful mode of treatment I am acquainted with. 
Mr. Morgan hoped that a very general discussion would follow the 
reading of so ably written a paper upon so interesting a subject as 
vomicae. In his experience it was not a very uncommon occurrence 
for horses suffering in the first instance from treads, and other sim- 
ple wounds, to die from pyaemia and vomica — a fatal termination 
often resulting in a short time from the first appearance of alarming 
symptoms. He thought such undesirable endings to apparently insig- 
nificant causes should teach veterinary surgeons, in ail instances, to 
use every endeavour to promote the secretion of laudable pus. He 
related a case of pulmonary congestion, associated with disease of 
typhoid character, terminating in abscess, in a mare he was called 
to attend for Mr. Heyes, during that gentleman’s absence from 
home. The mare was plethoric, and presented the symptoms ordi- 
narily met with in such cases : she had little appetite, very slight 
cough, pulse ranged between CO and 70, and was never more than 80 
beats per minute. The most remarkable features were — extreme alter- 
nations in the rapidity of breathing, and frequent variations in 
the colour of the membranes. During the first few days the 
disease seemed to be succumbing to treatment, but the mare gra- 
dually became worse and ultimately died. On post-mortem exa- 
mination he found considerable serous effusion into the pleural 
cavity ; one lung was healthy, with the exception of appearances of 
recent congestion, the other was one mass of abscesses. He con- 
sidered the animal must have had unsound lungs prior to the last 
attack. 
Mr. Gilbert Heyes said he was the unfortunate owner of the mare, 
and during his absence Mr. Morgan attended her. The mare was sent 
from Ireland purposely for him, and he intended keeping her for his 
own use. When he first got her she was very poor, but throve rapidly 
— in his opinion too rapidly — he fancied his groom overfed her. He 
was induced to send her to compete at a local agricultural show, where 
she was successful in the roadster class. After her return he heard 
her cough, but subsequently to that he rode her a fast journey, and 
believed at that time she was perfectly sound ; indeed, so convinced 
was he of the soundness of her respiratory organs at that time, that 
if it could be positively proved to him that she had then any latent 
disease in her lungs, he should hesitate to give a certificate of sound- 
ness in any case. In reply to a question by Mr. Greaves, he said 
the mare died about three weeks after that journey. 
Mr. Peter Taylor said the unbounded thanks of the Association 
were due to their excellent President for bringing before them such 
