EFFECTS OF MEDICINE ON HORSES. 
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August 11 th, 1824. — The doses given yesterday have not affected 
her appetite. To-day the enlargement underneath the jaw is 
blistered, and the drench is repeated morning and evening. 
12/A. — The nasal flux appears thicker. Continue her medicine. 
Five o’clock, P.M. — The mare has, since the morning, grown dull 
and seems unwell ; though her pulse is not quickened, and she has 
eaten the hay and corn given her at noon. Omit her dose this 
evening. 
13 th . — She has not eaten during the night more than half of the 
food that was given her yesterday evening. She is now evidently 
uneasy, making frequent efforts to stale, and a little urine now and 
then passes in the attempt. Her pulse, however, continues un- 
affected, and, though she did not eat above half the food that was 
given her this morning, she drank a pailful of water : not or- 
dinarily drinking so much. A cathartic ball was given. 
15/A. — Her bowels have been cleared out, and she appears free 
from vesical irritation. Let her take her drenches as before. 
16/A.— She has failed in her appetite, manifests general languor 
and depression, and is tucked up in her flanks. Discontinue me- 
dicine. 
20/A. — The mare has considerably lost flesh ; though she has again 
recovered her appetite, and has experienced within these two days 
past amendment in her general health and aspect. Let her try to 
take her medicine again. 
27/A. — Since last report she has continued taking her drenches 
without impairment of her appetite ; and the consequence appears 
to have been considerable diminution in the nasal discharges, a 
turning white of them, and a loss of a fetor they before possessed. 
The submaxillary tumour is also lessened. 
31s/. — Up to yesterday we thought the mare was gradually losing 
her nasal defluxion. Yesterday, however, it increased a little ; 
to-day there is further augmentation of it, and it has acquired a 
yellow tinge. 
Sept. 5th . — She has continued regularly taking her drenches since 
last report, without any perceptible amelioration in respect to her 
complaint, and without any disturbance of her appetite and general 
health. 
10/A. — She has remained without medicine since the 5th, and dur- 
ing the interval the mare has again shewn improvement. The nasal 
flux has sensibly diminished ; indeed, at times, has been suspended 
altogether : also the enlarged gland under the jaw is again dimi- 
nished. Tier appetite is now very good, and it is only at such times 
as she snorts or blows that any quantity of discharge is ejected 
from her nose. There seems no doubt about the seat of the disease 
being the sinuses of the head. 
