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WATERY FARCY; EXTERNAL DROPSY; 
DIFFUSE INFLAMMATION OF THE CELLULAR MEMBRANE; 
PURPURA ILEMORRIIAGICA. 
By W. Percivall, Esq., M.R.C.S. 
[Continued from No. 198, p. 400.] 
CASE II . — Topical Swellings, unaccompanied by general Tume- 
faction. 
May 2 d, 1841. — A TALL brown carriage-horse, aged, was brought 
to me, limpingly lame in the near hind leg. The groom said it 
was as much as the animal could do to hop out of his stable and 
hobble over to the infirmary, a distance of not more than 200 
yards. On placing my hand upon the inner surface of the thigh 
of the lame limb, where there appeared to me to be a fulness, l 
felt, just below the plump of the thigh, a roundish corded (but not 
knotted) swelling, about the magnitude of a boy’s arm, extending 
from about midway between the hock and groin upwards, to the 
extent of six or seven inches, towards the groin; and there ending, 
as it had commenced, abruptly. It felt very hot, gave excessive 
pain on pressure ; but, barring its situation, had not the character 
of farcy. The surrounding parts, the limb itself, saving this 
tumour, were entirely free from any swelling. The saphena vein 
could be distinguished beneath the tumour exceedingly distended, 
and, as far as one could judge from examination with the fingers, 
appeared to be involved in the tumour — to pass, in fact, through it. 
The horse had eaten his over-night feed; but was feverish and 
somewhat fastidious in his appetite this morning. The groom felt 
certain his malady was “ humour,” and alleged that he had had 
the same complaint the preceding spring. Take twelve pounds of 
blood from him, and give him calomel 3j e mass. purg. 3ix» 
Foment his thigh, and afterwards slowly exercise him. 
3 d . — He was watered and led out early this morning, and the 
consequence is his physic is now well working; there is not that 
fulness about the tumour there was yesterday, neither is it so hot 
or tender as it was. 
4dh . — Palpable decrease of the tumour ; the purging continues. 
Foment and exercise. 
5th . — The tumour has almost disappeared. Physic setting. 
6th . — Progressing favourably. Give mass. purg. §ss. 
