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shortly. A man was again left at night to attend to the mare, 
and his report was, that she rose twice during the night and ate 
mash, but was soon obliged to lie down again. 
8 th . — About the same as yesterday. The setons are dressed. 
The mare is on her feet occasionally, but only for a very short 
time, as the act of standing appears to produce intolerable pain, 
evidenced by her panting and blowing, and when lying down 
she appears comparatively easy. 
18/A. — From the last date to the present time a gradual 
amendment has been taking place. No medicine has been 
given, the bowels having been in good order. Unremitting at- 
tention has been paid to the poultices, and the mare has been 
fed on sloppy food. On the 13th the hind feet seemed very 
much relieved, comparatively free from pain, and felt cool, 
and I discontinued the poultices to them, but retained them on 
the fore feet. The setons are dressed daily, and the smell 
from them is most abominable. At this time I cannot detect 
the slightest signs of separation of crust or descent of sole in the 
fore feet, and the mare is now able to walk nimbly round her 
box; the feet are cold, and she appears in a fair way of re- 
covery. I intend to follow up this treatment, after another week, 
by making the mare stand in clay up to her fetlocks. Conse- 
quent with the constant poulticing, I attribute the greatest effi- 
cacy to the setons, which acted in a very beneficial manner, as, 
besides their action as counter-irritants and local depletives, 
they produced such a soreness on the back parts of the feet, 
where the poor animal was compelled to throw her weight, that 
she was obliged to assume the recumbent position, which is 
most important, since thus the distressed laminae are relieved. 
Fever. 
Dec. \tli, Six o'clock, A.M. — Bay mare, three years old. On 
the men coming to stables she was found not to have eaten any 
thing during the previous night, and was breathing very quick 
and laboriously. The farrier-major saw her, and, after putting 
her into a box and placing a blanket upon her, came for me. 
Seven o'clock, A.M. — The pulse, scarcely to be felt, is beat- 
ing 80 ; the mare breathing laboriously ; the Schneiderian and 
buccal membranes inclining to a purple tinge ; the legs and ears 
feeling cold ; and by applying the ear to the chest and sides a dry 
rale is heard. I had known this mare to be delicate ever since 
she joined, about a month since. The dung is small. Gave a 
warm injection, and a ball composed of aloes 3ij, resin 3ij, 
nitre ^ij. Warm clothing to the body, and double bandages to 
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