PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
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Present State . 
1. Pulse 75, and respirations 18 per minute. 
2. The eye looks languid, and is expressive of pain. 
3. All the limbs are considerably swollen ; the swelling extends 
from the tops of the hoofs to the junction of the limbs with the 
animal’s body, where it terminates very abruptly. The swelling 
extends completely around the limbs, and those parts which are 
free from hair have a glistening aspect. 
4. The swelling in every part is hot, hard, and acutely painful if 
pressed upon. 
5. She stands fixedly, her legs wide apart, and her head held 
low. 
6. She coughs occasionally ; the cough is hard, dry, and loud 
sounding. 
7. Occasionally thick clotty matter, of a white colour, is dis- 
charged from both nostrils. 
8. It is with great difficulty she can be made to move from 
where she is standing, which she does with a straddling gait; and 
the limbs are carried more as though they were posts than any 
thing else. 
9. She has no appetite, and has not dunged nor urinated, appa- 
rently, for a considerable period. 
Treatment — The animal to be comfortably clothed, and the limbs 
to be bandaged ; her diet to consist of bran, boiled cytn, and 
Gave the following in a draught : — ^ 
R Aloes Barb .// 3vj 
Camphor 1L 3 j 
Antim. tart il.. 3 j 
Aquae .V. Jviij. 
27^A, Three o’clock, P.M. — The mare to-day^^^pparently, is better j 
the physic is operating in a very gentle mannb*^ the appetite is 
improved ; she is more lively in appearance. She moves- better 
when made to walk. The limbs are, perhaps, a less little swollen ; 
at any rate, they are not so tender when pressed upon as they were 
yesterday. Pulse 70, and respirations 15 per minute. 
R Antim. tart 3 j 
Camphor 3 j 
Potass, nitratis 3ij 
Aquae Jvj 
The above to be given immediately. At seven o’clock to night 
the animal to have liquor potassae 3 ij in aquae ^viij. 
28 th, Eleven o’clock , A.M. — To-day the mare is much the same 
in every respect as yesterday ; the appetite is moderate. To have 
