574 CASE OF PULMONARY AND CARDIAC DISEASE. 
was blistered high up. After awhile, the tendo Achillis became 
enlarged : the precise seat of lameness was now apparent. With 
two months’ treatment and rest from the time I first saw her, she 
was fit for work, being a little stiff, with a straddling gait of the 
limb. 
Case. 
Congestion and Hepatization of the left Lung and Pericarditis. 
August 28/A, 1850. — I was requested by a gentleman, four miles 
hence, to attend a valuable hunter that had been ailing three days. 
The animal was observed to be unwell on the 27th; yesterday, 
when at exercise, was dull, and wanted to return to the stable : he 
was briskly trotted and cantered two days before, and had not eaten 
as usual — was bled, and had given him two ounces of castor oil 
and an ounce of sulphas magnesise, previously to my seeing him. 
The symptoms are now, at eight A.M., Pulse 84, and weak ; pe- 
culiar depression of countenance ; nostrils dilated ; Schneiderian and 
conjunctival membranes blanched; legs and ears rather cold; slight 
distention of abdomen ; fseces hard and scanty ; respiration tran- 
quil; appetite sparing ; prognosis unfavourable. 
R Venesection ; walls of thorax setoned and blistered ; febrifuges 
and enemas administered at P.M. ; no faecal evacuation : exhibit 
ol. ricini Oj. At seven P.M., bowels not responded to the medi- 
cine ; mucous membranes tinged with yellow : — give ext. Barb, 
aloes 3j, hyd. submuriat 3j, and pulv. opii 3j; continue enemas, 
friction, and bandages to the extremities. 
29 th. — Pulse 84, and of the same dangerous character as yester- 
day ; tension of the abdomen : but he has had a motion or two, and 
the fseces are more pultaceous, especially after an enema : features 
haggard, looks back frequently, continually walking round the box, 
eats and drinks but little, throws up his head, and crouches down the 
thoracic portion of the spine, as though he suffered inward pain in 
the chest. I frankly acquainted the proprietor that I despaired 
of my patient. Venesection repeated, and medicine as yesterday, 
omitting the ol. ricini. 
30/A. — No improvement. Symptoms much the same as yes- 
terday ; walks round the box as before ; greater distention of the 
abdomen; fseces quite pultaceous; for the first time, drinks a little 
gruel. I introduced my hand up the rectum, immediately after 
which a quantity of gas and fsecal matter escaped; he then 
appeared easier for a short time. Upon inquiry of the groom, I 
ascertained that the medicine I prescribed had not been exhibited 
since yesterday. The proprietor, who was standing by, replied 
that he had called in another practitioner (on account of my telling 
