CATARRHAL FEVER. 
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25th . — He purges well : pulse 110. He drinks a little gruel. 
I took away three quarts of blood, and six hours afterwards gave 
a drachm of white hellebore, and half a drachm each of digi- 
talis and tartarized antimony ; and blistered the spine. 
26th . — Trismus unabated ; I repeated the sedatives every six 
hours. An uncommon quantity of saliva now issued from the 
mouth : pulse 90. 
27th. — V.S., three quarts: pulse fallen to 72. I gave sudo- 
rific medicine, with twenty grains of calomel. A profuse sweat 
soon afterwards came on, which continued for several hours. I 
then returned to the autispasmodics. 
28th . — Pulse 90 : drinks gruel, and eats a little soft mash. 
Continue treatment. 
March 1st . — Pulse 90 : drinks gruel, but very little alteration 
in the symptoms. I gave a gentle aperient. On the 2d he was 
again bled, and on that and the following day two doses of the 
antispasmodic were administered. 
4th . — Pulse 64; spasms somewhat abated ; eats a little mash ; 
still stands stiff on his legs. (Edematous swellings had taken 
place in the cellular membrane on various parts, and I gave half 
an ounce of aloes, continuing twice daily somewhat smaller 
doses of the antispasmodics. 
From this time to the 17th, there was a gradual improvement. 
The pulse had fallen to 48, and every tetanic symptom diminished 
daily. The legs, however, continued as stiff as posts. I or- 
dered them to be frequently and well hand-rubbed, and applied 
stimulants to the cedematous swelling of the belly, all the while 
administering such medicine as the altered state of the disease 
seemed to require ; and the horse got well by the beginning of 
April, and is now as useful as ever for the cart and the plough. 
By pursuing this mode of treatment, I have cured five horses 
in the last five years ; but I record this, because it followed 
docking, when the cautery, to which all this mischief is gene- 
rally attributed, had not been used, and also on account of its 
complication with catarrhal fever. 
