ON THE TOBACCO CLYSTER. 
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Before two pints were drawn she shewed faintness. Administer 
without further loss of time a clyster of tobacco-smoke, in the 
usual way, with Read’s syringe, and give her calomel 3j, mass, 
cathartic. Jss in bol. The enema, after being persisted in for 
some two or three minutes, first brought away six lumps of dark 
brown hardish dung: persevered in, it elicited a further discharge 
of the same description, making altogether about a score dung- 
balls. Here was pretty clear evidence of the superiority of the 
tobacco over the common and aloetic clysters, both of the latter 
having failed to produce any faeculent discharge. Let her now 
be walked out for ten minutes, giving her previously as much cold 
water as she will drink, since she refuses to take any more of that 
which has been chilled. Apply a strong blister all over her belly, 
and give her this ball every six hours : — calomel 3j> farinse § ss, 
terebinth, vulg. q. s. ut fiat bol. 
2 o'clock , p. m. — Has not passed any dung since the morning. 
Repeat the tobacco enema. This brought away several lumps of 
dung of the same character as those ejected in the morning. 
7 o'clock, p.m. — No farther evacuation. Repeat the tobacco 
clyster. Again it was followed by dung-balls. 
11 o'clock , p.m. — Nothing has passed since 7 o’clock. Let 
her have another tobacco clyster. For the fourth time the injec- 
tion of the smoke elicited a discharge of dung. She is continu- 
ing her mercurial balls. 
June 12 th . — In the course of the night she, for the first time 
since the commencement of her illness, passed dung spontane- 
ously, or without the excitement of clyster, and again she has 
dunged pretty copiously this morning, the balls being lighter in 
colour and softer in consistence. Administer an aloetic enema. 
This also, now, is succeeded by discharge of dung. 
7 o'clock, p.m. — The mare has passed dung spontaneously 
since the morning, and has left off raising her hind feet to her 
belly, upon which the blister has taken good effect. Her pulse 
is 50, and tolerably distinct at the jaw. Discontinue the calo- 
mel balls, and give her, morning and evening, calomel 3ss, mass, 
cathartic, mass, diuretic aa 3ij. 
13 th , — The mare keeps very dull; and, although she eats her 
green-meat, it is not done with an appetite. Walk her out for a 
while. She dunged while out. Continue her balls. 
14 th . — She has passed but one soft lump of dung since yester- 
mid-day. She does not recover her spirits ; for although at 
one time she feeds a little, at another she turns her back on 
the manger, and stands moping with her head in the opposite 
corner. Let her take every eight hours calomel 3j> farinse fss, 
terebinth, vulg. q. s. ut fiat bol. 
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