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to the limbs, and the exhibition of stimulants internally still 
kept up. The improvement was marked, but the limbs were 
becoming much engorged and their natural heat was return- 
ing very slowly. The limbs were often hand-rubbed, the 
bandages made a little tighter, and bran-gruel was given. 
In the afternoon, great thirst was manifested; the pulse be- 
came much stronger, and the limbs also were becoming very 
warm. Being very busy with my other patients, I could 
only see this one twice a-day, though I was much interested 
in it. 
On the evening of the second day, the skin on several parts of 
the limbs became loose and baggy to the touch. On the third 
day, extensive sloughing resulted, leaving large cavities, 
from which profuse bleeding took place. Pledgets of dry 
tow, with bandages, constituted my treatment of these sores. 
In two days more, three of the limbs also were in a gangrenous 
state, especially around the fetlocks and coronets. Irritative 
fever ran high, and seeing no use could follow the prolonging 
of the sufferings of the animal, I came to the conclusion to 
have him destroyed, as everything was against a cure. 
GREASE. 
This was another of our vexatious diseases, induced by the 
cold and wet. I never saw any cases of it run on to that 
chronic stage in which we have excrescences formed. It 
never got beyond the ulcerative stage, and this is its most 
troublesome one. Warmth, dryness, and the application of 
some desiccant to the inflamed surfaces, was the only suc- 
cessful mode of treatment ; for poulticing, as I before men- 
tioned, w r as unsafe. Powdered quicklime I found an excel- 
lent remedy, and one easily applied. Liquid dressings did 
more harm than good. 
PROLAPSUS AN 1. 
March 25th. — This forenoon I was hurriedly sent for to 
see one of a number of Spanish mules on detachment at the 
monastery of St. George, about three miles from my camp. 
On my arrival, which was not until the afternoon, I found 
the animal suffering from a rather formidable protrusion of 
the rectum. The stable orderly informed me that he had 
been left quite well on the previous evening, and in the morn- 
ing he had been found with about a foot of the intestine ex- 
posed. He was also straining as much as he could, thus of course 
making bad worse. 
These accidents were of frequent occurrence amongst 
