76 VOMIC/E SUPERVENING ON INFLAMMATION OF BOWELS. 
afterwards administered a dose of laxative medicine. I also 
examined her per rectum, and succeeded in removing some 
excrement, which was very much hardened, and coated with 
mucus. Enemas were thrown up, but they soon returned in 
a colourless condition. The abdomen was fomented with hot 
water, which was ordered to be continued without intermission. 
The legs were bandaged, and instructions given for the 
enemas to be repeated every two hours. 
27th. — 6 a.m. The mare is evidently worse. The pulse 
is irregular and oppressed ; the mouth, tongue, and ex- 
tremities, are deathly cold, whilst the body is bedewed with a 
profuse perspiration. She lies down suddenly, and rolls from 
intense pain, and looks piteously at her left side. No faeces 
have been passed, and but a small quantity of urine, which is 
very high coloured. Some more aperient medicine was given ; 
the enemas repeated, and a stimulating embrocation applied 
to the abdomen. 
7 p.m. The symptoms are even more aggravated than in the 
morning; the pulse is 90, but very irregular in its action. I 
ventured on another bloodletting, removing about four quarts, 
which considerably lowered the pulse. I also blistered the 
chest and abdomen,' and ordered the medicine to be repeated 
as no dung had yet been voided. 
28th. — 9 a.m. My patient is improved ; she has dunged 
and also urinated during the night. The extremities are 
warmer, and the pulse is reduced to 60. She looks more 
lively, and has taken a little meal and water. Instructions 
were given for her to be well rubbed, and then warmly 
clothed, and walked out for a little exercise. The medicine 
is operating freely. Some vegetable tonics in combination 
with astringents were given, and plenty of thin gruel and 
linseed tea placed within her reach. 
29th. — 8 p.m. I found that a relapse had taken place. The 
respiration is quick and short; extremities cold; eyes moist; 
Schneiderian membrane of a scarlet colour, and the pulse 
numbering 95 in a minute. She stands with her head resting 
on the manger, and with her fore legs apart. She has no 
appetite. The faeces are rather hard ; her countenance has a 
remarkably anxious expression; the nostrils are expanded, 
and she has also a short dry cough. I w T as somewhat sur- 
prised at this change in the character of the disease, and 
informed the owner that the case was a hopeless one, peri- 
pneumonia having set in. At his urgent request, however, I 
continued my attendance daily until her death. 
It is not necessary that I should enter into particulars of 
the subsequent treatment, more especially when I say that 
