, INFLUENZA, FOLLOWED BY RHEUMATISM. 669 
The blisters had not taken any effect, and I resolved to endeavour 
to arrest the purgation, at all risks. I gave pulvis cretae composita 
cum opio §j in warm thick oatmeal gruel. The mare had great 
thirst, and some thick oatmeal gruel was made, which she took. 
The steaming of the head was repeated frequently, according as the 
animal would bear it ; and the legs thoroughly hand-rubbed and 
bandaged. 
In the evening the mare was still purging. The drench was 
again repeated. The mare, notwithstanding, appears more lively, 
and has taken some gruel. 
29 th . — The purging seems to have subsided, and the breathing 
is somewhat easier. I need not continue detail further ; suffice it 
to say, from that date amendment took place. The steaming of 
the head was continued, and the greatest attention paid to all stable 
comforts. A healthy discharge appeared at the nostrils, and the 
mare was in all respects convalescent, until 
Oct . 8 th, when a new train of symptoms became exhibited. 
This morning, on visiting the mare, I find her very lame in the 
near fore leg ; most acutely tender too, for on passing my hand 
down the leg I find her wince on the slightest pressure. The ten- 
derness seems to be greatest just above the fetlock, on the inside, 
where I feel an enlargement about the size of a small pea, which 
is most exquisitely tender. The pastern arteries are throbbing 
violently — the mare is panting with pain — the eye is anxious — 
partial sweats bedew the body — and the pulse is much quickened, 
and hard. Knowing that no accident could by possibility have 
occurred, and having had many cases of this kind before, I con- 
sidered the case at once to be one of those rheumatic affections of 
the bursse and ligaments of the fetlock joint occasionally occurring 
after pleurisy or influenza. I had the shoe taken off, and the foot 
thoroughly searched. The mare was bled from the toe to four 
quarts, and fomentations were unremittingly used through the 
means of spongio-piline, wrung out of very hot water, and kept 
applied constantly to the leg by an over-bandage. The dung is 
dry and small. Half a dose of physic is given, and some soap 
and water injections thrown up, and a patten shoe is put on the 
foot with a few nails loosely driven. 
9 th . — Bowels acted on. The mare is in the greatest pain : she 
pants and sweats, and lies down and moans. A man is constantly 
employed in fomenting the leg and attending to her. She is in a 
loose place, and has warm mashes. 
10/A. — Pain as yesterday. The bowels are rather costive. With 
the view of keeping the bowels in moderate action, and as an alter- 
ative, the following ball is given twice a day : — Calomel gr. x, 
