VETERINARY HOMCEOPATHY. 467 
property of George Taylor, of Thurstaland, a village situated 
between four and five miles from Huddersfield. 
History , fyc . — The horses in question have during the last 
twelve days been engaged in the removal of a quantity of 
timber, and yesterday the work was finished. About seven 
o’clock last evening every horse was fed with a quantity of 
fresh grains (a diet which they had never been fed upon pre* 
viously, at least not to the owner’s knowledge), with which was 
mixed some ground oats, bean meal, and chopped hay, the last 
named substances being the diet the horses are regularly fed 
upon. In about two hours after they had partaken of the pro- 
vender alluded to, they all began to exhibit symptoms of illness. 
Various measures of a simple nature were resorted to by the 
owner, but without effect. Between eleven and twelve o’clock 
matters became so much worse that a messenger was despatched 
in great haste to request my attendance. I was not long in 
arriving at the place. The symptoms presented by the three 
I found to bear a close similarity with one another, and shall 
therefore describe the symptoms of one case in detail, and 
merely touch upon the points of difference as presented by the 
other two. 
Case I. — An aged brown mare of the heavy draught breed. 
Symptoms. 
1. Pulse 68 per minute; feeble and thready in its character. 
2. Respirations I cannot well count, owing to the rapid 
movements of the beast ; but I think they are about 40 per 
minute. 
3. The extremities and ears are deathly cold. 
4. The surface of the body is covered with patches of cold 
clammy perspiration. 
5. The animal occasionally rolls about violently; turns her 
abdomen, and regards the side anxiously. 
6. She is violently purged ; the faecal matter which she 
evacuates is of a dark or black brown colour; semifluid, and 
occasionally intermixed with more solid portions. 
7. The abdomen is full and tense, but not particularly tender 
if pressed upon. 
8. The mucous membrane of the month and tongue is 
covered with soapy looking matter, which emits a very sour 
smell. 
9. The mucous membrane of the nose is of a dirty blue, or 
rather of a leaden colour. 
Such were the principal symptoms in Case I. In Case II 
