THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXIII, 
No. 274. 
OCTOBER 1850. 
Third Series, 
No. 34. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PATHOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF 
VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
By W. HAYCOCK, Veterinary Surgeon, 
(Member of the Veterinary College, Edinburgh) 
King Street , Huddersfield. 
Ninth and last Contribution. 
Purpura Hcemorrhagica — Scarlatina, fyc. 
Case I. 
February 4tth, 1847. — I WAS requested, about eight o’clock 
A.M., to attend upon a horse, the property of Uriah Tinker, Esq., 
of Bent House, Meltham, near Huddersfield. 
History, fyc. — The animal in question is rising five years of 
age — stands about fifteen hands high — is three parts bred, or near 
upon it — and is of a light chestnut colour. During the last five or 
six days this horse has laboured under a very severe attack of 
epidemic catarrh : the symptoms were, soreness of the throat, at- 
tended with difficult deglutition — a very severe cough — and accele- 
ration of breathing. The animal has not been treated for the above, 
except by clothing him warmly, giving him mash diet, and allow- 
ing him gruel and warm water to drink. Last night his limbs be- 
gan to swell, and when the groom entered the stable this morning 
they were found so enormously enlarged, and the animal apparently 
so much worse, that a messenger was dispatched to request my 
immediate attendance. 
Present State. 
1. Pulse 72, and respirations fifteen per minute : the pulse is 
feeble in its character, but the respiratory act is not attended with 
any peculiarity. 
2. The whole of the limbs are enormously swollen : the swelling 
extends from the feet to the junction of the limbs with the body, 
where it terminates abruptly. 
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