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THORACIC AND ABDOMINAL DISEASE. 
colts in the same yard, was labouring under strangles. A tumour 
had presented itself, within the last few days, under the lower 
jaw, hard, tender, and about the size of a swan’s egg. A blister 
was well rubbed in, and in a few days it had entirely disappeared. 
From this time no notice was taken of him until the 20th, 
when my attention was again called to him. His legs were now 
filled, the pulse 30, his appetite fastidious, and he was dull and 
mopish. 1 gave him, morning and night, sulphate of iron, with 
ginger and columbo made into a ball with common turpentine, 
and a liberal diet. 
May 27th. — He has gradually got worse. The least exertion 
produces accelerated pulse and respiration, with coldness of the 
extremities and body generally. The appetite is difficult to please, 
and he frequently lies down. I now determined to place him on a 
course of iodine, combined with ginger, gentian, and chamomile, 
morning and night, made into a ball with common syrup. The 
iodide was increased five grains every day, and on this day, June 
5th, he has taken 3iss per diem. 
June 6th. — Pulse 50, feeble at the jaw, but the heart’s action 
is full at the side — respiration 10 — visible mucous tissues pale — 
the muscular parts of his body evidently wasted, yet the belly is 
full and pendent, with a rumbling noise in the abdomen. Pres- 
sure against the walls of the chest occasions flinching and shrink- 
ing ; he resists it by attempting to bite. The faeces scanty and 
dry. Give a mild aperient in the morning and a tonic ball at 
night. An cedematous swelling has made its appearance under 
the chest. 
7th. — Pulse 64; undulation of the jugular veins, extending up 
to the angle of the jaw ; respiration 15. He is occasionally 
pawing, but not with urgency. Sometimes he lies down with 
great care at full length, and, while down, he now and then turns 
his head towards his flanks; when up, his walk is stiff and awk- 
ward. The bowels are torpid, and the cedematous swelling in- 
creased. Medicine as yesterday. 
8th. — Pulse 88 — respiration 44, synchronous with the heart’s 
systole and diastole — the extremities cold — the mucous tissues 
injected — the mouth stercoraceous — a discharge of thick white 
mucus from the right nostril-*- constantly changing his position — 
twitching his tail — resting his legs alternately — turning his head 
to his sides — frequent contractions of the muscles — the ears pen- 
dulous, the eyes sunk in their orbits, the skin retaining its 
natural gloss, and having done so from the first of his illness, the 
cedematous swelling beneath the chest quite gone — the bowels 
have been slightly acted upon by the medicine. Give opium c. 
ci eta in starch. 
