670 INFLUENZA, FOLLOWED BY RHEUMATISM. 
red sulphuret of antimony 9j, guaiacum powder 9ij, linseed meal 
3 iij, turpentine sufficient to make a ball. 
11 /A. — Pain not quite so severe. She lies down a great deal, 
and has much difficulty in rising, being afraid to put the leg to the 
ground to assist her, and in attempting to move in the box she 
draws her hind legs completely under her, and hops with the other 
leg. The urine is very turbid and white. I tested its specific 
gravity by the urinometer, and found it to be (as compared with 
water which is calculated at 1 000) 1 036. 
12/A. — Much the same as yesterday. Fomentations to the leg 
as before, and continue the balls twice a-day. 
13/A. — This morning I find the near fore leg much less tumefied, 
and not so tender to the touch ; but the off fore leg, about the fet- 
lock, is now extremely tender, and it is swollen the same as the 
near fore originally was. The mare cannot be induced to move, 
and is in such great pain that in her attempts to move she brings 
both hind legs completely under her, and makes a kind of jump 
forward. Fomentations are kept up as before, but now to both legs. 
1 could not lift the off fore leg to bleed from the foot, as she could 
not bear her weight on the near fore ; for, notwithstanding the 
great pain and tenderness on pressure had somewhat subsided in 
the near fore leg, yet was there evidently great inflammation still 
existing. 
14/A. — The animal remains as yesterday, and as the difficulty 
of moving about, as well as in lying and rising, was so very great, 
I thought the mare would be easier in slings; she was accordingly 
placed in them, and they afforded her great comfort. An easy 
long shoe, with thickened heels, is applied to the off fore foot, and 
fomentations are unremittingly continued. The balls, also, are 
continued twice a day. I need not further pursue the daily 
treatment. Sometimes, after fomenting with very warm water, 
the animal appeared in greater pain than before. I then tried the 
effect of cold water, which seemed to answer better, in consequence 
of its having some effect in checking the tendency to the secretion 
of synovia, which was distending the capsules and bursae, and 
pressing upon the inflamed inelastic fibrous tissues and nerves. 
The mare continued in slings until the 28th October. The balls 
were administered twice a day, and she continued to rest perfectly 
quiet in the slings, always lying in them, and throwing her whole 
weight upon them, except when feeding. During this period both 
hocks became very painful and much swelled. 
29 /A. — She is taken from the slings, and suffered to hobble about 
a paddock in front of her box, just as she pleases. Medicine is 
discontinued, she made sad attempts at moving about a‘t first, 
