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and wrapping up the legs in bandages of flannel, hay, or straw, 
supports the distended absorbents, and enables them to relieve 
themselves. Diuretic medicine may be given every day, or every 
other day, when the inflammatory action has ceased ; and sti- 
mulants of turpentine may be used externally with advantage in 
the latter stages, to arouse the action of the absorbents anew, and 
to cause absorption of the effused lymph. 
“ When active remedies are not employed in the very com- 
mencement of this complaint, the swelling often remains, and 
resists every remedy ; therefore rowels and bleeding in the toe 
are rather injurious than otherwise when they alone are depended 
upon as cures, as they persuade the proprietor that nothing else 
is necessary to be done, and by this delay the time for removing 
the swelling is lost. Exercise at the beginning of the disease is 
also dangerous ; for most cases that end in death are owing to 
this cause. The disease is seldom fatal when properly managed. ” 
A Country Blacksmith and Farrier. 
We thank the Blacksmith and Farrier for this satisfactory 
extract from Mr. Thomson’s Work. We must endeavour to 
see the original. — Ed. 
A CASE OF RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH IN A 
FILLY, IN CONSEQUENCE OF EATING HAWS. 
By Mr. S. Goodworth, Driffield . 
On Friday the 2d of October, 1835, at four o’clock in the 
afternoon, I was requested to attend a chestnut filly, the pro- 
perty of Thomas Boys, Esq., of Great Driffield. When I arrived, 
I found her in a very deplorable state : she was rolling and 
tumbling about, her mouth was very hot, the membrane of the 
eyelids ar.d nostrils were slightly vascular, the extremities of a 
clay coldness, the pulse not to be felt either at the submaxillary 
artery or even at the heart.. When she stood up, her legs tottered 
beneath her; and there was continual twitchings about her breast 
and sides. I abstracted blood to the amount of four quarts, and 
gave 3 iij of Barbadoes aloes in solution. A little time after, the 
pulse began to be perceptible at the heart ; the legs and ears 
were becoming warm, and the body inclined to perspire : I then 
left her. 
In about an hour I saw her again. There was no amendment; 
