ABORTION FOLLOWED BY LAMINITIS. 15 
Dec. 4ith . — The mare has gone on remarkably well up to this 
date. 
Half past Six o'Clock, A.M. — She has fed, and is to all appear- 
ance well. This was the account given to me by several 
persons who had seen her at that time. 
Half past Seven o'Clock, A.M. — The mare is found suddenly 
to be in great pain, shifting her posture behind, panting and 
blowing, and when attempting to move, appears as if she were 
going to fall, from rapidly losing all power over her hind quarters. 
The farrier major came to my house and reported the above 
circumstance at eight A.M. ; and as the first impressions on my 
mind were naturally connected with the subject of the late mis- 
hap, and as from the symptoms coming on in this way I augured 
most unfavourably of the case, I requested Mr. Wells, Y.S., 
of Norwhich, who lived near me, to meet me at Barracks at 
nine A.M., to have the benefit of his practical advice. We found 
her in the state above described, panting and blowing from pain, 
the pulse about 80, and hard. On attempting to move her, it 
appeared as if the hind parts were paralyzed, and that she must 
sink down. On examining the parts of generation, we found 
all going on correctly, and that there was a discharge of the 
usual fluid, but rather of an offensive odour and character, as if 
the foetus had been dead and decomposed. The hind feet were 
found intensely hot, and the fetlocks considerably swollen, and 
the pastern arteries throbbing violently. On manipulating the 
fore extremities, the same symptoms were observable ; but the 
pain at this time existed principally in the hind feet. On 
tapping the horn of the feet with the hammer, the mare evinced 
pain. We forced her to attempt a movement, but she appeared 
as if paralyzed. We agreed, it was a case of laminitis of all 
four feet, of the most violent description, but still principally 
affecting the hinder ones. The shoes were with the greatest 
difficulty at once taken off, six quarts of blood abstracted from 
the jugular vein, and eight drachms of Barbadoes aloes given in 
ball; and, after the bleeding, each foot was immersed in a large 
poultice of bran and linseed meal, which was to be kept con- 
stantly hot by pouring warm water into it from a kettle. 
One o'clock, P.M. — The pain is most intense : the fore feet 
appear to me now to be the most affected. The mare stands 
obstinately fixed. Pulse 80, and hard. With a view of alle- 
viating the pain, gave a ball of extr. of belladonna 3j, camphor 3j, 
opium 3j, made up with turpentine. 
Nine o'Clock, P.M. — Pain unabated. Repeat the ball. Men 
are left up all night to keep the poultices constantly hot. 
5th . — This morning there is no change; the pain most in- 
tense. On forcing the mare to move, the peculiar action of the 
