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expressed. Abstracted three quarts of blood, and gave aloes 3iij, 
ol. lini §xxiv, acidi hydrocy. M.xx. Embrocated the loins with 
lin. ammon., clothed her well, and threw up a simple clyster. 
1 6/A. — Found her easier. The purge has not acted. Tobacco 
fumes were injected, which appeared to affect the heart’s action, 
and produce some degree of faintness. Gave ant. pot. tart, with 
hydr. chlor. twice a- day, adding aloes as appeared to be needed. 
18/A. — Reported to be much better, but the urine still scanty and 
ropy. Sent glob. bals. copaiva, as above. Recovered quickly. 
On the 17th of the same month I was called to a foal-mare at 
Uldale Hall, that had been running out during the winter, and for 
the last six weeks was seen to pass thick slimy urine, and to go 
stiffly : but her general health was unaffected until a few days ago, 
when she was taken up and put to the plough ; after which she 
was very lame, mostly lay stretched out, and fed badly. Abor- 
tion took place on the 16th, and on the next day I found her lying on 
her side. We got her up with some difficulty — much stiffness in the 
loins — urine mucus-like. Pulse 70, and rather soft. Subtracted 
some blood, and ordered aperient doses of aloes, with embrocations 
to the loins, &c. The case being a bad one, and twelve miles off, 
I did not see her again, but learned from the owner that she sud- 
denly got much worse on the third day, and died ; and that the 
kidneys and adjacent parts were black, and, as he thought, much 
diseased. 
It would appear in this instance that subacute inflammation of 
one or both kidneys had existed for some weeks. 
THE WINDSOR STEEPLE CHASES. 
WHATEVER admiration a horse with his rider, who have per- 
formed “ wonders” as steeple-chasers, may elicit from us as 
“ sporting men,” we must all of us, on reflection, sincerely deplore 
the sad and fatal accidents to which both are more liable in this 
than in any other description of sport. The late steeple chases at 
Windsor furnish us with three additional melancholy instances of 
the truth of this remark. Out of a score of horses that ran during 
the first day’s racing, two had their “backs broken,” one his shoulder 
bone fractured ; and all three had an end put to their days at the 
place of contest, to save them from protracted suffering, their 
cases being altogether irremediable. Of the two with “broken 
backs,” both occasioned by leaping, one was a mare named JESSIE, 
six years old, the property of Captain Sutton, of the 7th Hussars; 
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