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painful state of the disease, is a good smart bleeding, a purga- 
tive, and frequent sponging of the limb with warm water; mash 
diet, &c. After the inflammatory symptoms are removed, the 
oedema will remain for some time ; and, perhaps, at this stage of 
the complaint the stimulating treatment may be useful ; but I 
usually content myself with gentle exercise, hand-rubbing, and 
an occasional alterative. 
There is another state of the constitution of the horse in which 
1 attribute much good to the stimulating method of treatment. 
A horse is brought to the veterinary surgeon with an unthrifty 
look ; his coat rough ; he is languid, does not eat as usual, nor 
does his work so well, and he easily sweats. His bowels act 
properly — he stales freely— there is no cough — no appearance of 
organic or scarcely functional disorder — and yet the animal is not 
well. The vital powers want rousing. Under these circum- 
stances cantharides, with the vegetable tonics, contitute the best 
medicine we can adopt, and the restoration of our patient to 
health will generally follow their use, if continued with regularity 
for a few weeks. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE SPLEEN IN A MARE. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, Whitchurch, 
On Monday night, 6th March, 1836, I was sent for to see 
a chestnut mare, seven years old, nearly thorough-bred, that had 
apparently a bowel complaint. 
I saw her about eight o’clock ; she had been ill nearly two hours, 
and nothing had been done to relieve her. She had been ridden 
quietly to this town in the afternoon, and the owner thought 
she was not so gay as usual, and believed she had not dunged 
while out. 
Symptoms . — Those principally of colic; such as lying down 
often, rolling over occasionally, and, at first, a tucking up of 
the flanks, with the hind legs more under the belly and the back 
humped; pulse about 50, full and smart; breathing natural; 
legs and ears warm ; not swelled in the least. 
Treatment . — I took away four quarts of blood, and gave a 
soft ball, composed of aloes Barb. 3iij, opii 3i, tart, antim. 3L 
Raked her — the dung was hard and slimy. 
10 p.m. — About the same. I made a drink of aloes Barb. 
3ij, opii 3i, antim. tart. 3i, and gave her two or three horns 
full, but could not get her to swallow it ; we, therefore, did not 
try her with any more. I then made two balls, with aloes Barb. 
