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a high degree of colour, but the colour was of one uniform depth ; 
purulent matter also issued from the nostrils. The cough was 
gone, or nearly so, and the soreness of the throat had entirely 
subsided. The swelling of the limbs had disappeared, save be- 
tween the hock and the fetlock of the right hind leg, which space 
was greatly smaller, accompanied with soreness of surface, which 
at times bled profusely: similar sores also existed in the regions of 
all the joints, but of smaller extent. All the sores suppurated, 
more or less, matter of a healthy kind : the appetite was also 
pretty good; and the general condition was evidently improved. 
I directed the acetate of ammonia and spirits of nitre to be occa- 
sionally given to him, and the sores on the limbs to be dressed with 
a very weak solution of chloride of lime. 
I saw Mr. Tinker again on the 20th, when he informed me that, 
since I had seen the animal, he had continued to improve ; that he 
fed well, walked much better, lay down regularly, and that the 
sores upon his limbs were healing fast. The animal ultimately 
recovered, and did well. 
Case II. 
March 1847. — I was requested, about ten o’clock A.M., 
to attend upon a mare, the property of Messrs. Benjamin and 
James Sheard, corn-dealers, &c. residing within a short distance of 
Huddersfield. 
History Sfc . — The mare in question is rising six years of age, of 
a dark bay colour, half bred, and stands exactly fifteen hands three 
inches in height. She has been the property of the Sheards about 
two years, during which period she has several times suffered from 
colic, from catarrhs, and from loss of appetite. I attended her 
about two months ago for a severe attack of colic; soon afterwards 
she laboured under catarrh, for which she was not treated : this 
latter attack, left her with a severe hard, loud, and dry-sounding 
cough, which exists at present. She is considered by her owners 
to be a mare of tender constitution, and is mostly used as a hack ; 
sometimes for harness purposes, and occasionally she is worked in 
the chains. If she stands in the stable for a few hours, her hind 
legs begin to swell, which tendency has existed from the time she 
first came into the hands of her present owners, and for how long 
before I cannot learn. Eight days ago she was ridden into Lan- 
cashire : the journey was a long and weary one, the weather wet 
and stormy ; and ever since her cough has been more severe, and 
her general condition has sunk to some extent. During the last three 
or four days her appetite has failed, her legs have also swollen 
more, and her gait has become stiff. This morning she was found 
to be so much worse, that I was requested to attend. 
