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CASES BY RICHARD HENRY DYER, M.fi.C.V.S.L., 
Jersey. 
CASE I . — Bleeding from the Lungs. 
This was a coach-horse about thirteen years old. He had been 
worked only two miles on the 19th of August last, but the weather 
was very hot. The coachman informed me that he had been bleed- 
ing from the nose nearly the whole distance, and he supposed that 
the horse had lost a gallon of blood. 
I was called at eleven o’clock, when the following symptoms 
presented themselves : — bleeding very freely from the nostrils — 
blood a bright scarlet, and frothy — cough at intervals — no pulse 
at the submaxillary artery — respiration so hurried and laboured 
that I could scarcely detect the beating of the heart. The owner 
gave him up as dead, and begged that he might be taken into a 
field and there allowed to die, as he very much disliked a dead 
horse in his stable : I, however, begged that the horse might be 
put under treatment. He assented, and the animal was removed to 
my own stable. The same symptoms continued. I gave plumbi 
acetat. 3 ij, croton, farinse gr. x, and aquae §xij. Cold water was 
dashed on the sides and chest for half an hour; I employed enemas, 
and left the horse tied up to the manger for an hour. 
I went to him at one o’clock. The symptoms were abated: 
there was very little bleeding from the nostrils, but a large quan- 
tity of saliva from the mouth. I gave him some cold water to 
drink and a cold mash to eat. He picked up a little of the mash. 
I bathed his chest and sides, and left him tied up as before until 
the evening, when I administered plumbi acet. 3 i, croton, farinse 
gr. x, and aquee Jxij. 
As the bowels seemed torpid, I gave him meal and water as 
before, fomented him, and left him tied up for the night. The 
bleeding was now entirely stopped and the respiration quieter. 
On the next morning I saw him at eight o’clock. The horse 
appeared very much better. I gave him the same drink as before, 
omitting the croton, his bowels by this time being acted upon. The 
pulse 52, and intermits every four or five beats. In the evening 
the horse seemed as well as ever ; he picked up his hay, and ate 
his corn as well as before. The pulse is now natural, and the 
horse is doing well. I saw him a few days afterwards ; he then 
seemed quite comfortable. I advised the owner not to put him 
to coach-work any more. 
It will be observed that I did not bleed in this case, which I 
know to be the main part of the treatment in general. The sub- 
ject under treatment was an old horse, and in low condition, 
with no pulse at the jaw. This will at once account for what is 
omitted. 
