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proved. The pulse has varied from 60 to 66 per minute; the 
respiration much the same as yesterday. In the morning I gave 
the following in a drench, which was repeated in the evening : — 
R Camphor jj 
Spts. nitre 3ij 
Acetate of ammonia Jij 
Aquae Jvj 
30 th. — To-day a constant dribbling of saliva has been going on 
from the mouth of the animal : the swellings in various parts of the 
body, head, limbs, & c., are much of the same size and extent as 
yesterday ; they are, however, less tender, softer, and those parts 
of the skin denuded of hair have lost that glistening aspect. He 
walks about his box more than he did, eats better, and the snuffle in 
the breathing is gone. A thick purulent discharge issues from both 
nostrils. The pulse has varied from 56 to 60 per minute. On 
applying my ear to the chest, I am enabled, for the first time since 
the disease set in, to detect an abnormal sound from the lungs : to- 
day I can detect a soft mucous rale, which is present throughout 
both lungs, but the air is not otherwise interrupted. Medicine the 
same as yesterday. 
May ls£. — To-day various changes have taken place : the swell- 
ings on the extremities have, in a great measure, rapidly disap- 
peared : to speak within bounds, the limbs are not half the size 
they were. About ten o’clock in the forenoon the animal laid him 
down for the first time since he became ill ; he lay for about four 
hours, during which time he evidently suffered from abdominal 
pain of a subacute nature. The eye looks dim and glassy; the 
nose is occasionally brought to the side, and the side is regarded 
with a wistful look : the nose is held in this position for five minutes 
at a time ; the head is then turned slowly away, and allowed to 
fall heavily upon the straw. Occasionally he struggles and at- 
tempts to roll over, but does not succeed : he refuses every kind of 
food and drink ; he grinds his teeth. The pulse has varied from 
60 to 66 per minute. Mucous rale in the bronchi much the same 
as yesterday, and, what is worthy of remark, the animal has never 
been heard to cough since the present disease set in. I have been 
very desirous from the first to examine his urine, but was unable 
to do so until to-day, when a bottle of it was handed to me for that 
purpose. It is thick, opaque, and gummy, and resembles dirty 
linseed oil; its specific gravity is 1-60, and, when shook, a dense 
froth is formed upon its surface*. On pouring some into a glass 
* I am not positive respecting what this urine contained ; I have, therefore, 
given the whole of what I have recorded respecting it, so that future examina- 
tions of other specimens which may present the same appearances may clearly 
decide the question. 
