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to the halter, rack, manger, and all round the lower part of 
the box. 
At this stage of the disease I was aroused one morning, as 
early as two o’clock, by an unusual noise in the direction of 
the stables, and fearing that there was something wrong with 
one of the horses, I went down, and found my patient had 
fallen from exhaustion, and was bleeding profusely from 
the off nostril. This I immediately plugged with tow, bathed 
the head with cold water, and injected a solution of alum. 
In about a quarter of an hour afterwards she rose, ate a bran 
mash, and went on well till the afternoon of the same day, 
when the hemorrhage again returned, and about three 
quarts of blood were lost. This was, however, soon arrested 
by the same plan of treatment as before ; and after keeping 
my patient’s head bathed for a few days, I advised her being 
turned out in a paddock, where she had plenty of good hay 
and corn for about three weeks, when my friend, Mr. Drake, 
V. S., of Exeter, saw her, and recommended a gentle dose of 
physic and an injection of the chloride of soda, in the pro- 
portion of four ounces to a pint of water, morning and evening. 
The mare was therefore again brought to my stables, and 
subjected to the last-mentioned treatment for some weeks, 
- but as before without any success. 
I at 'last had recourse to the following as an injection: 
four ounces of chloride of soda, mixing with it two ounces of 
compound tincture of myrrh, and throwing it up the nostril 
with great force, by means of a pint syringe, which I had the 
satisfaction to find entirely stopped the discharge in one week ; 
and after a month’s run in the field, the mare resumed her 
saddle-work, and has been in good health and spirits up to 
this time, with the exception of a slight cold, which has now 
quite passed off. 
My opinion of the action of this mixture is, that the chlo- 
rinated soda excited a healthy action in the Schneiderian 
membrane, and the spirit of the tincture of myrrh becoming 
evaporated, the matter thereof was left on the membrane as 
a coating to the diseased vessels. 
I am, &c. 
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