26 OBSCURE ABDOMINAL DISEASE IN HORSES. 
regular, and the breathing all this time remained undisturbed, 
although the pulse reached as high as 9b in the minute, and the 
circulation remained thus excited for four or five days, in spite 
of the use of Tinct. Aconit., Digitalis, Opium, Ext. Belladonna, 
and Antim. Pot. Tart. The cough became more frequent, 
and the visible mucous membranes fully participated in the 
general inflammation, while the debility which followed was 
extreme. Once I ventured to have him turned in the stall, 
which, but for the assistance of half a dozen men, would 
have ended in his falling, and as I feared, never to rise again. 
Vesicants were thrice applied to the sides, and they were 
repeated over the throat and trachea also. Shortly after this 
the tide turned in our favour. The pulse returned to its 
natural tone and number, and the animal is now regaining 
his lost condition. 
At this juncture another, a very fine cart horse, and in the 
same stable, showed premonitory symptoms of the same 
disease. He, like all the rest belonging to the company, was 
in excellent condition, and this was the first sign of sickness 
he had exhibited during the whole period he had been in 
their possession. My previous knowledge of the other cases 
taught me that “ delay was dangerous,” so that in this 
instance I lost no time in the application of a blister to his 
throat and sides, and I adopted the like treatment to that 
already described. Twenty-four hours elapsed, and the blister 
had taken no effect : my directions were then for it to be 
repeated, and that it should receive additional strength by 
the union with the Ol. Mylabris of a third part of the Tere- 
binthinate Solution of Croton. This was applied again in 
twelve hours afterwards, but without producing even tender- 
ness of the parts, and a similar period was only allowed to 
expire before the vesicant was employed for the fourth time. 
The symptoms did not vary much from the onset up to this 
period of the history. His exhaustion was not less than that 
shown by my other (and now convalescent) patient ; for if 
compelled to move across his stall, the motion was accom- 
panied by symptoms of paralysis of the hind parts, and it 
was with difficulty he retained the standing position. The 
pulse ranged between 80 and 95, and the conjunctival mem- 
brane was considerably injected ; but the respirations were 
neither hurried nor laborious. The same abdominal pain 
presented itself, and excepting that he ate a few chopped 
carrots mingled with about half a pint of oats, twice repeated 
during the day, he took no support. 
To my list of patients was added a chesnut horse, on the 
26th, ?nd on the 28th, I received the further addition of 
