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CASES OCCURRING IN AFRICA. 
were the bones, skin, and ordure. The waggon-people had 
conveyed the carcase to the spot, and there left it ; the sca- 
vengers were quickly at work, and left very little wherewith 
to satisfy my curiosity. But I have digressed. Returning 
to the subject of publication, do what you may think proper 
with them; I have given them concisely, without much com- 
ment or remark. The first and second cases I have looked 
upon as morbillous disease ; the third, as one of mad staggers; 
and the fourth, one of complication, viz., enteritis , with intes- 
tinal rupture; and, may be, diaphragmatic also. Should you 
think any of them worth publishing, be good enough to cor- 
rect any errors I may have committed through ignorance or 
carelessness. 
Case I. — Purpura. — Morbillous Disease. 
A dun horse, eight years old, running at grass for five or 
six hours daily, exhibited, on the 29th of December 1852, 
considerable swelling of the left side of the head and face, 
with pustular eruptions ; palpebras tumefied ; enlargement of 
the submaxillary lymphatic glands; the general health but 
little disturbed. Two drachms of aloes, with half a drachm of 
calomel, were given, and hot fomentations employed to the 
head and face. The following day, the pustules had become 
more numerous ; several, containing matter, were incised ; the 
appetite was impaired; the bowels somewhat inactive. Half 
a drachm of calomel was repeated every eight hours, until 
the bowels responded ; fomentations were continued, and a 
solution of nitre applied to the incised pustules. In a few 
days, the tumefaction subsided ; the sores assumed a healthy 
character, followed by the healing process ; the appetite was 
restored, and the animal regained his usual health. 
On the 10th of the following month (the weather having 
suddenly changed to wet and cold) lameness in the off hind 
leg appeared, accompanied by extreme pain ; some slight 
swelling also about the hock was observable. The pulse had 
become quickened and small; the respiration hurried; the 
mucous membranes injected. There was a total loss of 
appetite, a staring coat, and the animal presented a most 
dejected countenance. Two drachms of Pot. Nitras, and half 
a drachm of P. Ant. Tart, were administered in ball every 
eight hours, and fomentations to the hock of the affected 
limb employed. On the following day, the hind leg was 
much swollen ; oedematous swelling appeared under the 
chest ; and innumerable pustules were upon the body, arms, 
and thighs. A thick yellowish discharge flowed profusely 
