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in the brain, and all the coverings of the nerves which go to 
the lungs and intestines were greatly congested. Therefore 
we need not be at a loss to account for the fluidity of the 
contents of the bowels, after the quantity of purgative medi- 
cine administered, or the insensibility to its action, as exem- 
plified by the small amount of pain present in that stage. 
The spinal cord is congested, and effusion takes place, thus 
causing the paralysis that accompanies this complaint ; and 
proportionate to the degree of effusion so will be the loss of 
power. 
(To be continued .) 
ANASARCA, OR LOCAL DROPSY. 
By C. Lay cock, Y.S., Selby. 
Gentlemen, — Not remembering to have lately seen re- 
corded in the pages of the Veterinarian , or particularly treated 
of, a disease to which the horse is liable, termed by the 
profession “ local dropsy,” but more commonly known to the 
agriculturalists of this district by the name of “ water farcy” 
or “ dropsy of the skin,” I therefore presume to address you, 
not for the sake of u sounding my own trumpet,” but to get 
information, hoping that some one, better able than myself 
to handle the subject, will take it up. It would be super- 
fluous in me to describe the symptoms of this complaint, for 
I have no doubt the disease is as old as the history of the 
horse, and has doubtless come under the notice of every 
veterinary surgeon. The best mode of treatment I have 
adopted is, first to place the patient in a warm and com- 
fortable box, avoiding a cold stable as the greatest evil, and 
instead of water, give as much — 
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warm, as he will drink. Also occasionally administer a little 
tonic, aperient, and diuretic medicine, and cause the food to 
consist of good hay and dry oats, always paying particular 
attention to the animal’s being housed w arm and comfortable, 
as already advised. By adopting this treatment I have 
generally, after a long and tedious trial, been able to succeed 
in effecting a cure. In low and marshy districts, yearlings 
are most subject to this disease, but age does not exempt an 
