400 WATERY FARCY— EXTERNAL DROPSY, &C. 
not more than 50 or 60 yards. Her respiration, evidently disturbed 
before she left the stable, became quick and painful on motion. 
Her pulse is likewise beating high from suffering and irritation. 
Immediately she was discovered in this state (six o’clock in the 
morning) she had twelve pounds of blood drawn from her, and took 
an ounce and a half of Bardadoes purging mass, with a drachm 
and a half of calomel ; and, as soon as hot water could be procured, 
had her whole limb immersed in an ample warm bath; after being 
an hour or more in which she was cautiously led out, and, being 
found to move with considerable less pain than before, while out 
she had very slow walking exercise given her. The next day, the 
limb itself had not augmented, but the udder had become altogether 
part of the general tumefaction. The day after this, her bowels 
had not been purged, notwithstanding the large dose she had taken 
on the da}' of attack ; and, therefore, half an ounce of cathartic 
mass, and the same quantity of diuretic, in addition, was given. The 
third day from the attack, even, her bowels had not properly re- 
sponded to the medicine, so torpid are they in this disease of 
the subcutaneous tissues ; and therefore a couple of drachms of 
each of the abovenamed masses were administered. For all this, 
however, the tumefactions had begun to yield: there was an 
evident diminution of the enlarged udder, and the skin of the 
swollen limb had lost some of its tenseness and elasticity. On the 
fourth day, there was no purgation, and yet the swollen parts were 
diminishing : indeed, the udder was almost free from tumefaction, 
and in the hind limb it is very perceptibly dropping. On the fifth 
day she did purge, and purged freely. And now the udder has all 
but regained its normal size, and the swelling of the limb is quit- 
ting the thigh for the hock and leg. After this, the mare expe- 
rienced daily amendment ; and, by attention to exercise and diet, 
increasing the one and bettering the other, according as her re- 
turning health and strength seemed to indicate, she, in a short time, 
recovered, and took her work again. 
“ There is nothing in this case,” I think I hear it said, “ to 
take up your time in writing, or our time in reading it ; neither 
needed it publication.” Good reader, wait with patience until 
next month, and then I will tell you the reason why I have trou- 
bled you with such a common-place every-day case. 
The cover of our Journal contains the announcement of a Prize 
for the best Essay on Pleura-Pneumonia. We were happy to 
read so spirited and noble a proceeding in the Farmers’ and Gra- 
ziers’ Mutual Cattle Insurance Association. They have lately lost 
a valuable beast that had been insured by them, and they immedi- 
ately paid the sum for which it was insured. We ardently wish 
them suocess. 
