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submaxillary lymphatic glands of the same side, which symptoms 
he has had for six weeks past, was submitted to the following trial 
of the above medicine. 
June 26th, 1816. — Let him commence with a drachm of the 
chloride of barium, made into a ball with linseed meal and treacle. 
21th. — He has refused his feed this morning. Omit his morn- 
ing dose, but give him the ball in the evening : — ulceration in the 
place of the vesicles. 
28 th. — He has recovered his appetite. Continue the ball 
morning and evening. The discharge from the nose appears di- 
minished. 
29 th. — Again off his feed this morning. Let him take the ball 
in the evening. 
30 th. — His appetite has returned. Give the ball twice a-day. 
July ls£. — Ball morning and evening. Ulceration spreading. 
2d. — Augment the dose to 3iss twice a-day. 
3 d . — Again refused his morning feed, and his pulse has got 
quick : the discharge is not so copious, though the pituitary mem- 
brane has a blush upon it. Let him take the ball at night. 
4 th. — Feeds pretty well again, and is regular in his urinary and 
alvine evacuations. Rub the submaxillary swollen glands with 
infus. lyttse, and give the ball morning and evening. 
5th. — Give him 3ij of the salt morning and evening. 
6th. — Augment his doses to 3iij each. 
1th. — Let the 3iij be given again. It was too late discovered, 
after this morning’s dose had been administered, that even last 
night the horse had refused his food ; nor has he eaten any thing 
since. No symptoms, however, of alarming illness were mani- 
fested before noon to-day ; then he was seized with dyspnoea, 
accelerated pulse, and other dangerous symptoms, which, in the 
course of the day, were succeeded by violent diarrhoea, painful 
and laborious respiration, and death. 
Post-mortem. — The appearances upon the mucous membrane 
of the stomach and intestines — more intense upon the former than 
upon the latter — were such as are ordinarily produced by poisonous 
substances. The lungs were quite black, being to appearance 
in a state of mortification. The frontal sinus of the off side 
shewed its lining membrane greatly thickened, inflamed, and co- 
vered with a coating of purulent matter. 
CASE TIL — A black gelding, seven years old, in good condition, 
was admitted on the 3d July, 1816, with an attack of farcy in 
the near hind leg. The lymphatics running up the thigh were 
corded, and in some places had broken out in ulceration. The 
submaxillary gland of the near side was tumefied, and there was 
a slight discharge from the near nostril, upon the septum in which 
