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ON THE TOBACCO CLYSTER. 
1 5th . — She has ejected nothing per anum during the night; 
indeed, the bowels appear once more to be shut up. Give her 
immediately a tobacco-clyster ; but this, though persisted in for 
ten minutes and upwards, elicited but a single lump of softish 
though dark-coloured dung. She was afterwards walked out, 
but nothing more passed. The man says she appeared to have 
been pawing during the night, from the state he found her litter 
in this morning. She, however, does not seem so dull as she 
was yesterday. The pulse is 50, and her mouth cleaner. Some 
new straw was given her for her bed, which she commenced 
picking over : at ordinary times, however, she stands with her 
head averted from the manger in one corner of the box. Let 
her continue her balls. There seems no other chance for her but 
that of affecting her system with the mercury. No medicine has 
been found to act on her bowels, and tobacco has lost its power 
of stimulating her rectum and colon. If I should be asked why 
I have not given oily purges, I answer, because I have no faith 
in them. 
1 6th . — Has passed dung once during the night, and again this 
morning. The motions are in balls, darker than ordinary, but 
not remarkable for hardness. In other respects I see but little 
difference in her. Her pulse has sunk to 44. At longer or 
shorter intervals she may still be observed to lift one hind foot 
off the ground, though it is not raised to her belly as formerly. 
Let her have a simple enema, and discontinue her mercurial me- 
dicine : not that the mercury has affected her mouth, but on 
account of the bowels once more beginning to act of themselves. 
7 o'clock , p.m. — Has dunged twice since the morning: it is 
in balls, and dark coloured, but not very hard. Seems much 
better this evening, for she eats her vetches with an appetite, 
and her bran mashes also. Let her be walked out. The exercise 
produced a third evacuation. 
17 th . — Better in all respects. Has dunged twice in the course 
of the night, and again after exercise this morning. Do nothing 
more to her medicinally. Let her be walked out morning and 
evening, and restrict her diet to green meat and bran mashes. 
18^/i. — Dungs naturally, and feeds heartily. 
19 th . — All her legs are filled. Let her take mass, cathartic, 
mass, diuretic aa 5 SS * 
20 th . — Repeat her ball. 
21sL — The swelling has left her legs, but the medicine has, 
without purging, nauseated her. Omit it. 
2 2d . — Recovering her appetite and spirits, and going on as 
well as can be wished. 
