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ANASARCA OR INFLAMMATORY (EDEMA. 
than the other, and here there existed a collection of sand, 
gravel, and small pebbles, which was so tightly impacted in 
the gut that it was impossible for liquids or medicinal agents 
to have any effect upon it. This extraneous matter must 
have been in the bowels several days. I ascertained on 
inquiry that the last four days of her life she had been fed on 
bran and chaff; but before that she had been eating pea 
haulms, with which, in all probability, was mixed the sand,&c. 
CASE OF ANASARCA OR INFLAMMATORY 
CEDEMA. 
By the Same. 
On the 29th of June, 1856, 1 visited a black cart-filly, three 
years old, by request of a farmer in this neighbourhood. 
She had just recovered from the strangles, and was put to 
hard work on the 24th, but on account of being in a 
state of lassitude, she was left at home on the 27th. When I 
saw her, there were swellings in different parts of the body, 
especially between the fore legs, which extended to the 
umbilicus ; also on the back ; and the buttocks were so 
enormously swollen, that it was impossible to move her. 
The pulse was 64, and weak ; the Schneiderian membrane 
pale coloured, with several red patches on it; the tunica 
conjunctiva of the right eye inflamed and much swollen, and 
from it a sero-purulent discharge took place ; submaxillary 
glands enlarged. I resorted to such means as the symptoms 
present indicated the necessity of. 
On July 1st, no diminution of the swellings had taken 
place; the animal could not lie down, and scarcely move. 
The eyes were glassy, yet the appetite was good ; the 
breathing quick and short (indicating the existence of in- 
ternal effusion); pulse 104. 
These S} T mptoms continued present until the 15th. In the 
mean time, by the aid of liberal diet, constant fomentations, 
alternating with evaporating lotions to the swellings, scarifi- 
cations and the use of setons, followed up by the administra- 
tion of diffusible stimulants and febrifuges, and, subse- 
quently, a course of vegetable tonics combined with diuretics, 
all the unfavorable symptoms gradually disappeared; the swel- 
lings decreased, the respiration became tranquil, and by the 
28th the pulse was at its natural standard; the Schneiderian 
