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a more healthy character. More farcy buds have been 
opened, and the others dressed; the matter is thicker and 
healthier. The lower farcy buds that had been opened and 
dressed are getting well ; but the upper part of the absorb- 
ents, and where two or three buds had been opened, is 
thickened ; many fresh buds are forming, one I opened to- 
day. I fancy I can feel some enlarged glands about half way 
up the shoulder, just anterior to the joint ; she flinches on 
pressing the parts. She occasionally horses, and her respira- 
tion is full quick ; but she has been feeding well to-dajq and 
is looking better upon the whole ; and, with the exception of 
the thickening of the absorbents, is going on well. I now 
commenced rubbing in some Ung. Hyd. fort, on the near 
limb. 
20 th. Better. The thickening about the absorbents is 
subsiding, but the tumour on the shoulder is larger. Ung. 
Hyd. fort., has been rubbed in. 
23cl. Going on very well. I almost think the “buds 55 
will not separate. The tumour on the shoulder is, I think, 
less, and the cow is looking better altogether. The ointment 
produced a large oedematous tumour on the side of the dew- 
lap, but it is nearly absorbed. 
26 th. She does not look really well, and does not fill her- 
self. Opened one of the buds ; that on the shoulder is as 
large as one 5 s fist. Two others are forming about the point 
of the shoulder. The absorbent below is larger and harder. 
Rubbed Ung. Hyd. fort., Jj, and ordered the following, night 
and morning: Cupri Sulph., 3iij; Lyttae, gr. v; P. Lini, ^ij. 
There is a sore place under the belly, just about the girthing 
place, which is swelled a little. 
Oct . 1 5th. She is getting thinner, and is hot and feverish. 
Took about a gallon of blood from her, and discontinued the 
medicine. 
19 th. She is better. There are a few buds ready for open- 
ing, situate just below the bleeding place, at the shoulder. 
The tumour on the side of the shoulder is again enlarging. 
There are no buds appearing above the bleeding place. 
31 st. Opened the two buds above the bleeding place, and 
put in tents of Ung. Hyd. Bichlor., and rubbed in the limb 
some Ung. Potas. Iodid. Co. on the tumour, and on those 
forming at the point of the shoulder, which the next day 
were well blistered by it. There is now a tumour forming on 
the inside of the knee of the other fore leg. 
Nov. 6th. Opened the tumour on the off leg, which proved 
to contain pus more like that in farcy buds in horses than 
anything else. Tumours on the near shoulder appear a 
