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tumefied ; there are also large swellings at the base of each 
ear, and at the supero-posterior parts of the orbits, in which 
pus can be detected. Dress the wounds, stimulate all the 
tumours, and continue tonics and good feeding. 
15th. — The patient much the same; tumours enlarging, 
appetite good. The legs are swelling, and the urine is 
scanty. Administer a diuretic ball in addition to the usual 
medicine. 
16 th. — The abscess in the sub-maxillary space discharges 
freely, but the nostrils discharge less, and the eyes are clearer. 
The tumour on the cheek is of considerable magnitude. Con- 
tinue treatment as before. 
18th. — Opened a large abscess on the cheek, and another 
at the base of the ear, from both of which nearly a pint of pus 
was evacuated. Dress wounds, and continue the tonic 
medicine. 
21st. — The patient is cheerful and the appetite good. From 
the great weakness which has accompanied the case, the 
animal has not been able to protrude the penis when staling; 
consequently, accumulations have taken place within the 
sheath, which now impede the passage of urine. Let the 
parts be well cleansed and lubricated with oil. 
I opened another abscess on the (C off” side of the head, 
situated supero-posteriorly to the orbit, from which a large 
quantity of pus was likewise discharged. Omit the balls, 
and give sulphuret of antimony with chloride of sodium, in 
the animaPs corn and chaff, morning and evening. The 
patient has become very thin, and is still weak, but he looks 
tolerably cheerful, and eats as if nothing ailed him. 
23d. — The horse is better; the discharge from the wounds 
and nostrils is rapidly diminishing; the early wounds are 
healing fast, the pulse is 42, and the strength returning 
Allowed walking exercise, and continued the pow r ders as 
before* From this period the patient rapidly improved. 
All the wounds healed quickly, and, when sufficiently con- 
valescent, he w T as turned out in the salt-marshes, I heard 
of him on the 12th of the following June wffien he had 
recovered both health and condition, and to use the owner’s 
words, “ w T as a better horse than ever.” 
Although this attack w 7 as very irregular in its approach, 
progress, and development, and throughout was marked by 
extreme debility, still, by the steady exhibition of iron com- 
bined wdth vegetable tonics, we kept up a good appetite, and 
thus enabled the vital pow r ers to resist the disease. The vis 
medicatrix naturae will always help us when we allow T it. 
