INFLAMMATORY (EDEMA. 
19 
November 1st. — The swelling has materially decreased. 
A good discharge takes place from some of the punctures ; 
seton moist; pulse 64; purging rather more freely; faeces 
free from mucus, and more natural. Three detached or 
isolated spots of swelling about the size of eggs, have appeared 
on the neck, on the near side, which are rather hot and 
sore. 
2d. — 9 a.m. Repeated the diuretic. The fresh swelling 
has increased, and is working its way up to the mane, and 
back again to the head and poll on both sides, being very 
hot and painful; some difficulty in swallowing; pulse 68, 
and rather full ; countenance very anxious ; respiration (pucker 
than at any time before, and the heart, which has hitherto 
been very quiet, throbbing a little. Now my worst fears 
began to gather about me. I was apprehensive that the 
second attack about the head and throat would wear my 
patient out, although of a sort to all appearance as hard as 
iron. The seton discharges well. About the breast the 
swelling is much reduced, and is settling down the fore legs, 
which are of an immense size. She is .now able to move for 
the first time ; the pain experienced by the parts being 
rubbed with the Linim. Tereb. caused her to do so, but she 
cannot be got round to the manger. I applied a blister 
around the throat, and up to the ears ; had a hood made to 
fit the head and neck, and ordered fomentations to both sides 
of the neck until I returned. 
7 p.m. — The swelling has somewhat lessened. I punc- 
tured the arms, they were so much distended, and commenced 
giving the following powders, as balls we could not well get 
down. 
V° Hyd- Chlor., & ; 
Pulv. Opii, 5jss; 
Ant. Pot. Tart., 5ij- 
M. et divid. in pulv. viij. 
One to be given every six hours in mash ; I also ordered the 
following ointment : 
Ung. Iodinii Co., 
Png. Hyd. Port., aa ^iv ; 
Camphorse, ^j- Misce. 
The greater part of this was rubbed well in at once on both 
sides of the neck up to the mane and poll, and the hood put 
on again. 
3d. — The swelling is much reduced. She eats the 
powders in a mash ; has moved into another part of the stable 
