72 CURIOUS CASE CONNECTED WITH PHLEBOTOMY. 
of the animal being merely elevated sufficiently to ensure the 
effectual exhibition of the medicine. 
Regimen . — At the commencement this should consist of well- 
boiled gruel. Subsequently nourishment in small quantities, suit- 
able in kind and frequency to the state of the case, may be allowed, 
and even boiled grain, of a digestible nature and in moderate quan- 
tity may, in some cases, be permitted. During convalescence a 
due proportion of digestible and stimulating food will be beneficial. 
CURIOUS CASE CONNECTED WITH PHLEBOTOMY. 
By Mr. King, Sen. 
On the 29th of June I was called to attend a two-year-old 
filly, belonging to a gentleman at Harrow. She was down and 
could not rise. The cause was evidently a head affection. She 
was bled, and had cathartic medicine. 
July 1st — The bleeding was repeated. « 
‘Id . — Bleeding repeated : she rose. 
3 d . — Bleeding repeated, she not having complete controul over 
her limbs, after which, recovery went on gradually until July 26th, 
when she was turned out, and no notice taken of her until Aug. 10th, 
when information being sent to me that she had a bad swelled 
neck, I went to see her. 
Whenever repeated bleeding is necessary I always make a fresh 
opening — the four openings were distant perhaps an inch and a 
half between each. On examination of the vein the circulation 
was perfectly free, the pressure of the finger producing disten- 
tion which immediately disappeared on its removal — the vein be- 
tween the openings giving the sensation to the finger of its being 
perfectly healthy. 
Immediately over the points where the openings had been made 
there existed circumscribed tumours as large as a nutmeg, per- 
fectly unconnected with each other, moveable under the skin to 
a certain extent, and feeling like small cysts, not yielding to 
common pressure. 
The filly not expressing any uneasiness, I applied all the pres- 
sure I could with the thumb and finger, which, after a little con- 
tinuance, was attended with a slight crepitus, and the tumour dis- 
appeared. The same result attended the other three tumours. She 
was kept in-doors for a few days. The vein was not in the least 
affected, and every thing turned out rightly. 
