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EFFECTS OF MEDICINE ON HORSES 
In this manner — diminishing and again augmenting the dose 
according as she would bear it — the administration of the medicine 
was persevered in until the 30th of August; altogether, nearly 
ten weeks. The result was, the mare left the infirmary, to every 
outward appearance, “ cured” or recovered of her disease. 
Whether her disease was glanders or not, I shall leave to others 
to determine. The nasal discharges were never put to the test of 
inoculation. I shall select one other case in which the chloride 
was given ; and it shall be one in which it proved fatal. It will 
serve to shew in what a sudden and unexpected manner death 
occasionally happens during the exhibition of this poisonous 
mineral. 
Case VI. — A bay horse, admitted on the 8th of March, 1820, 
with symptoms, not altogether decidedly marked, of farcy. He 
was, when I examined him on the 20th of the same month, low 
in condition, and appeared debilitated either from the disease, or 
what had been done for it. I found ulcerations within both cham- 
bers of the nose ; but they were, although unhealthy in character, 
of an inactive or chronic description. There was a viscous yellow 
issue from both nostrils, also tumefactions of the submaxillary 
glands of both sides. Both hind limbs were swollen as high as 
the thighs, and exhibited cords of tumefied lymphatics upon 
their inner parts. There also was present a swelling, most 
unusually hard to the feel, of the sheath, which ran for some way 
along the abdomen. 
In this case I resolved to try the medicine in solution. I there- 
fore ordered the horse to be kept short of drink, and to have mixed 
in his pailful of water a fluid ounce of the Liquor Barii Chlo- 
RIDI, and this to be done morning and evening, keeping him with- 
out water at mid-day. 
23 d, 24 th, 25th, 26th. — He drinks his water — has had ^iss of 
the solution mixed with it, morning and evening. 
27 th, 28 th, 29 th, 30 th, 31$/, April 1 st, 2d. — Has drunk Jij 
morning and evening in his water, and has been regularly exr 
ercised. There appears less discharge from the nose, and of a 
better character. The hind limbs are less swollen. 
April 3 d. — He purges, and has failed in his appetite. The 
ulcers have certainly a cleaner aspect, and the submaxillary glands 
have in some measure diminished. 
4 th, 5th, 6th, 1th, 8 th. — Continue medicine as before. 
9 th. — Purges again, and very much off his feed. His farcy has 
undergone amendment : but, in respect to the nasal affection, that 
seems one day better, another day worse. 
11 th, 12 th, Y5th, 14 th. — Recovered his appetite, and has con- 
tinued his medicine. 
1 5th. — This morning the groom had exercised him as usual, 
