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A CASE OF INDIGESTION. 
gin than the dracunculus ; and, indeed, if we may rely on the ac- 
count given of a case of it by Sauvages, from the information of 
a friend, it is a disease that throws much light on that part of 
physiology which relates to the ova of animals circulating 
through the human system, and at length hatching and giving 
birth under the skin to a diversity of insects. “ Illi aegro anno 
1728 et 1729, quotidie prodibant ex oculis, auribus, pod ice, 
urethra, vulnere phlebotomise, pediculi, pulices, forficulae ara- 
neolae, lumbrici, scarabaeoli, quorum icones mecum communica- 
bat amicus. ” (Nos, Mith., tom. ii, 603.) 
A CASE OF INDIGESTION. 
By Mr. Barker, Stokesley. 
On April 21st, 1835, I was called, at two o’clock in the morn- 
ing, to see a Cleveland mare, that had been taken ill a few hours 
before. She was rolling about the stall, and sadly bruising her- 
self. She had been bled, and some gin had been given to her. 
I inquired what she had eaten, and was told that her master al- 
lowed her a proper quantity of barley, but that the mare, being 
a favourite with the servant, he had been in the habit of giving 
her twice as much as he was ordered to do', and that this was 
probably the cause of her illness. The pulse was 70, and full 
and hard. I took away six quarts of blood, and gave a laxative 
mixture. 
At four o’clock she was no better, and the pulse had risen to 
82. I took four quarts more of blood, and gave an enema con- 
taining three ounces of tincture of aloes and a pint of castor oil. 
She became a little easier. 
At eight o’clock the pulse had risen to 98, and I abstracted 
three quarts more of blood. 
At ten o’clock the bowels had not been opened ; the extre- 
mities were becoming cold, the breathing was short and quick, 
and the mare was becoming very weak. I gave a scruple of 
croton oil. 
At seven p.m. the physic began to operate; the mare, however, 
refused all kind of food ; I therefore ordered her to be drenched 
with gruel, in order to assist the operation of the physic. 
22 d . — She is purging profusely, yet I do not like to interfere 
with the physic. 
23 d . — The working of the physic is beginning to subside, but 
the mare will not eat, and she is very weak. I then began to 
give her stomachic balls, and repeated them twice in the day. 
The mare soon began to feed, and did well. 
