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(EDEMA PRECEDED BY STRANGLES. 
Respecting the post-mortem appearances I can say nothing, as 
I had not an opportunity of seeing her opened. 
CASE III. 
June 1835. — A brown thick-set cart mare, six years old, the 
property of a military gentlemen living four miles from this 
town, had influenza in February last. By means of repeated 
blood-letting from the jugular veins and temporal arteries, and 
the administration of laxatives and febrifuges, she recovered. 
In the latter end of May she had an attack of strangles, from 
which she was in a state of convalescence. On the 21st of June 
an alarming swelling came on in the legs, and she was bled, and 
had diuretics given her. 
28th. — I was called in to attend her. I found her in a truly 
pitiable plight : the thighs were very much swollen on the in- 
side, as high as the pelvis, and outside to the acetabulum, and 
posteriorly to the vulva. The lips and nose were frightfully swol- 
len from the end of the former to the eyes : she could scarcely 
breathe. There was also a swelling in front of the breast. The 
pulse was 50, and soft ; and appetite impaired. I took two quarts 
only of blood from the jugular, although the animal was in good 
condition, and placed a rowel beneath the chest; a repelling lotion 
was applied to the nose, and fomentations to the other swellings, 
which I had previously punctured with a lancet. I administered 
cupri sulphatis jss, et zingiberis 3j, morning and night, and 
ordered bran mashes and grass as her food. 
29th. — Swelling of the nose quite abated, and that of the 
thighs triflingly diminished ; appetite good ; pulse 50, and soft; 
intestines constipated. The rowel has caused a great swelling. 
R aloes Jij, to be given twice a-day ; rowel removed; lotions 
and fomentations continued. 
30/A. — Swelling gradually decreasing from the posterior ex- 
tremities, and progressively increasing and extending from the 
front of the chest under the abdomen. When the latter was 
punctured, an amazing quantity of serum escaped. Fomenta- 
tions and lotions continued : give sulphate of copper and ginger, as 
before. 
July 1st. — Swelling of the chest increased, and that of the 
thighs nearly gone down : pulse 60, and weak. The right eye 
has a terrible appearance ; it is, together with the membrana 
nictitans and a considerable portion of the adeps, nearly forced 
out of the orbit : the latter has a livid colour, and there exudes 
from it a yellow serous fluid. The lids and lachrymal gland are 
frightfully swollen, the tears overflow the cheek. 
