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heard to cough for the last two days. Discharge from the sub- 
maxillary tumour still continues, but the quantity of purulent 
matter has abated greatly. Discharged, cured. 
Case IV. 
April 26th, 1847. — I was requested, about nine o’clock, a.m., to 
attend upon a horse, the property of Messrs. Carver and Co., 
carriers, in this town. 
History , 8$c. — The horse I am called to attend upon is now eight 
years of age ; of a black colour, of the draught breed, and stands 
sixteen hands in height. He has been the property of Messrs. 
Carver and Co. during the last two years. His labour is that of 
taking goods to and from the warehouse daily to and from various 
parts of the town. He is a horse of tender constitution ; labour, 
even of moderate severity, will sometimes take away his appe- 
tite. Once or twice he has suffered from colic, and frequently from 
catarrh. At the time the horse came into the hands of Messrs. 
Carver, he was affected with a chronic cough, which cough is 
always accompanied with a violent kind of sneezing : latterly, this 
cough has become more severe indeed ; sometimes this compound 
of sneeze and cough will continue for twenty minutes at a time : 
the cough is hard, loud, and dry-sounding. During the last three 
days the horse has not performed his work with that degree of ease 
which is customary to him. The driver informs me that he has 
walked stiffly, that his cough has been more severe, and that he 
was greatly out of spirits and impaired in his appetite. 
Present State. 
1. Pulse 66, and respirations 18 per minute. 
2. The respiratory murmur is normal, apparently, throughout the 
chest on both sides. 
3. When the horse is made to walk, he is evidently in pain ; 
he moves stiffly, particularly the hind limbs. 
4. The hind limbs, from their junction with the body down to 
the hock joints, are greatly swollen : this swelling extends all round 
the limb inwardly and outwardly, while below the joints the limbs 
are of their usual size. 
5. The fore limbs are also considerably swollen ; the swelling 
upon them is situated upon the outer surface of the fore arms : it 
is bulbous-looking, presents an irregular surface, and terminates 
abruptly. 
6. A large circumscribed swelling exists under the abdomen; 
all the swellings are hard, hot, and tender ; pit but little if pressed 
