542 DISEASED LUNGS— OLD DISCHARGE STOPPED. 
ordered it to be kept clean, and to leave it to dry and heal up. 
I gave a diuretic ball. After I had given the ball I perceived 
that her breath smelled offensively. I inquired of the boy who 
brought her how long it had been so, but he could give me no 
account ; and I considered that she had got a cold, and that it 
was the matter on her nostrils that smelled so ; but still I had my 
doubts about it, as she looked much thinner and worse ; her 
breathing, however, was not quickened. 
9th. — Mr. P. called at my house for me to go and see her. 
He was not, as you may well imagine, in the best of humours, 
and said I had poisoned the mare with my physic. I accord- 
ingly went over, and found her very ill indeed ; so ill, that I had 
not the least hope of her recovery, or of there being any use in 
applying remedial treatment. She was lying down, but got up 
immediately. She seemed as if she would not live many hours. 
Her breath was very offensive, and the discharge from her 
nostrils came evidently from some abscess in her lungs every 
time she coughed, and which she was scarcely able to do in the 
least degree. Her respiration was of a most laborious kind, and like 
that of a broken-winded animal. She died on the same night. 
Examination . — The next morning I went to see her opened, 
but found that the keeper had already examined her. Her lungs 
were on the dunghill, and were nearly one mass of disease, 
being almost filled with abscesses, and in a most rotten state. 
Observations . — When I cast this mare, I had little expectation 
of such a result, as she then appeared to be in perfect health, 
with the exception of having had, a few days before, a harrow- 
tang run through the frog of the foot of which she was lame, 
and in consequence of which the owner thought she had better 
be operated on now for the warts, that no time might be lost. 
The injury to the foot Mr. P. had attended to, and it appeared to 
be going on very well, and so did the parts I operated upon. 
Now what brought this disease on? I am inclined to think the 
following : — From the injury the foot had sustained with the 
harrow, and also my cutting the warts and stopping the dis- 
charge about the heels : probably she might have caught a 
cold when she was cast, for it was very cold and hailed, and 
she, of course, perspired not a little during the operation ; per- 
haps, also, she was not properly attended to after having the 
physic. These things put together may have set up irritation in 
the system, and which, becoming transferred to the lungs, might 
have produced the disease. The stoppage of the discharge I 
think could not have produced it solely , as it was not so great 
just prior to my stopping it as it had been before ; and also there 
was a pretty good one all the time from the wound, and which 
