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STRAY CASES. 
Before adopting measures for her recovery I had to deter- 
mine whether it was a case of hydrophobia or not, and the 
chief things that made me conclude it w r as not, were her dull- 
ness, stupidity, and her not offering to bite any one. I 
managed to get a cord tied round her neck so as to distend 
the jugular veins, one of w hich I opened and allowed the 
blood to flow until she staggered and threatened to fall. 
After the bleeding I succeeded in giving her an eight-drachm 
aloetic ball. She continued much in the same state all that 
day and night, during which time she knocked off the 
whole covering of the stable within her reach ; the joists also 
bore marks of her catching hold of them with her teeth ; 
indeed it was the owner’s opinion that she would eventually 
bring down the whole stable about her. My engagements 
did not allow of my seeing her until the next morn- 
ing when I found but little alteration in her symptoms 
except that she was rather weaker. The physic not having 
operated, Igaveher another four-drachm ball, and in the course 
of the day the medicine began to produce catharsis, the alvine 
evacuations being very watery. The urgent symptoms now 
abated, and she gradually improved and was enabled to 
resume her usual work within a few days. 
SLEEPY STAGGERS (COMA) IN A HORSE. 
I will now relate a case that came under my notice a short 
time after the preceding one, so as to bring out in a broad light 
the differences of the two affections and the occasional effec- 
tiveness of the treatment. On being called to the animal, 
a bay-carriage horse, I found him pressing his head, like a 
bull, against the stable wall, as if he were attempting to push 
it down. His eyes were dull and sleepy, pupils dilated, pulse 
about 90, ears, muzzle, and legs cold, coat staring, nasal 
lining purplish in colour and suffused with blood, symptomatic 
of congestion ; the breathing was not accelerated, but rather 
heavy, with an occasional sigh ; the abdomen also was full 
and rather tense. On inquiring into the history and previous 
treatment of the animal, the groom informed me that he had 
no appearance of ill-health until he was found in this state 
on that morning. He likewise said that no change had been 
made in his food, nor had he got loose in the night. I 
considered it a case of congestion of the brain from over- 
loading of the stomach and bowels with nutritious diet, the 
horse having had only rather light work to perform. Taking 
this view of the case I bled him freely from a large orifice 
until syncope threatened to supervene. This was followed 
