618 THE RECENT INFLUENZA AMONG HORSES. 
greatly exhausted, and in a very short time afterwards fell back- 
wards ; but immediately jumped up again. The legs now be- 
came cold, and the breathing very quick, and she broke out 
into a cold sweat. I had the legs well rubbed and bandaged, 
and covered with hay bands. 1 gave spts. aether, nitr. and liq. 
am. acetatis, of each §ij in a pint of water. I was very fearful 
she would not rally; but she did. The following morning the 
breathing was a little easier, and the mare was picking a little 
grass. I now blistered both sides extensively, and allowed her 
to have a little grass and a small quantity of bran mash, and a 
constant fresh supply of cold water. On the following day, the 
influenza appeared in all its violence. The eyes were badly 
affected ; the legs much swollen ; the throat very sore and 
swelled; head poked out; the tongue much furred and very 
dry ; the dung very slimy. I need not follow the daily treat- 
ment of this case. The breathing became perfectly tranquil — 
the skin completely peeled oft’ the tongue — the animal after 
a hard struggle for life had reached the ninth day, and had been 
feeding, and was apparently doing pretty well. Still there re- 
mained some symptoms which rendered her recovery doubtful. 
The pulse had never declined in number and had now decreased 
below 75, and was wiry. About the sixth day, great lameness 
appeared in the off hind leg. This continued without, on the 
closest scrutiny, my being able to discover a cause for it ; added 
to which, the animal had not lain down. On the ninth day, 
lameness suddenly appeared in both hind feet, and on examina- 
tion, it was very plain it was an acute attack of laminitis. The 
mare had, however, rallied so much from her original disease 
that I was not left without hope of saving her. All that I could 
do was to apply constantly warm poultices and fomentations, and 
give doses of oil. To attempt active treatment, by throwing her 
down and passing setons, was, I knew, more than she could bear. 
After she had suffered twenty-four hours, I saw all chance was 
gone Debility increased wonderfully, while the pain from con- 
stitutional irritation became quite dreadful. In forty-eight 
hours she fell, and after lying in acute pain for twenty-four 
hours more, died. 
The heart was softened in its structure, and pale and filled 
with black blood. I found the lungs as in the foregoing case, 
while they appeared to be nearly double their weight from con- 
solidation of structure. The trachea and larynx shewed traces 
of inflammation of a dark tinge. In the chest I found a large 
quantity of coagulated blood which had been poured forth from 
the vessels, but no serum ; the liver was pale, and easily 
lacerable by the finger ; the intestines appeared healthy. At 
the base of the right kidney there was a large quantity of black 
