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3. The lower part of the face is also greatly swollen, particularly 
the lips and the nostrils: the eyelids are also swollen considerably. 
4. The swelling in every part is hot, hard, and acutely painful 
if pressed upon; and in those parts of the skin free from hair (as 
the lips, nostrils, and inside of the hind limbs) the surface of the 
swelling is glistening and shining. 
5. Pustules or vesicles, of about the size of a pea, are present 
upon the lower part of the limbs : they are plentiful in and around 
the anterior region of the hock joints, and also around the fetlock 
joints ; occasionally these vesicles burst, and discharge an amber- 
coloured serum. 
6. The mucous membrane of both nostrils is covered with irre- 
gularly formed patches of a dark red or purple colour ; from which 
is discharged, in great profusion, a bloody muco-serous matter. 
7. Every time the expiratory effort takes place, a snuffling 
sound is heard in the nasal passages. 
8. Great soreness of the throat is evinced when the animal 
attempts to swallow water, or fluids of any kind. 
9. The animal is affected with a very severe cough, which is 
hard-sounding, and of a suffocative character. 
1 0. It is with difficulty he can be made to walk ; his limbs are 
moved stiffly, and in a straddling manner: this stiffness has been 
present during the last three days. 
11. The neck on both sides is swollen over the region of the 
parotid glands — the swellings are hot and tender to the touch. 
12. The eyes, and the countenance generally, present a peculiar 
dejected aspect. 
13. The animal has not dunged nor urinated for a considerable 
time. 
Treatment . — The neck to be blistered along the course of the 
trachea — the limbs to be bandaged with linen bandages, made wet 
by being dipped occasionally in hot water. Give the following in 
a drench : — 
R Antim. tart 3jss 
Camphor 3j 
Aloes Barb 3iv 
Belladonnae Tinct 3jf 
Aquae 1 pint 
To have, also, acetate of ammonia ^ij> in aquae §iv, every four 
hours : to be warmly clothed, and fed upon boiled corn and mashes, 
and to have thin gruel to drink. 
6th . — The limbs are not so acutely painful, nor the swellings so 
hard, but the blood pustules are more numerous than yesterday, 
and the discharge from them more copious ; he also moves better 
in his box. The discharge from the nostrils has now become pu- 
