16 PL KURO-PN F.UMON Y AND RUPTURED STOMACH. 
he stiii coughed considerably, and there was a rattling noise 
in his trachea. The aperient medicine was operating more 
strongly than I expected or wished. After the purging had 
ceased, he continued the following five or six days with his legs, 
ears, and body very warm and comfortable, but his respiration 
was too quick. It was that of a broken- winded horse, and, in a 
measure, as if there was effusion in the thorax. The disease 
had clearly assumed the character of pleuritis. 
On the 29th his respiration and pulse were quicker, and I 
abstracted nearly five quarts of blood, which was very much 
buffed. The lymph was tougher than I had ever felt any. I 
also blistered the sides of the thorax. This bleeding relieved 
him. Most of the time he was taking the potassio-tart. of anti- 
mony, digitalis, and, occasionally, a dose of the ext. of belladonna, 
and with apparently good effect. .His kidneys were acting 
rather severely. His pulse now became very much intermittent 
and slow, ranging between 25 and 30 — the appetite was bad, 
and the animal rather debilitated ; of course, the medicine was 
discontinued, and an opposite plan of treatment carefully adopted. 
We now gave small doses of tonic medicine, and any thing he 
would eat. 
On the 3d of June he had a cold fit. I gave him ^ij of the 
spt. aeth. nit., well clothed him, and rubbed a stimulating lini- 
ment on his legs and ears ; and in the course of a few hours he 
rallied, and got warm and comfortable. 
The 4 th, oth, and 6th . — He had repeated small doses of tonic 
and aperient medicine, his appetite continued indifferent, and 
his pulse was very intermittent. One day he lay down for a few r 
minutes, most probably from some irritation in the bowels, but it 
passed off. 
In the night of the 6th of June, Mr. Lucas, of the Liverpool 
Repository, came over to see him, with whom I spent two or 
three hours very profitably, and had, indeed, connected with our 
profession an intellectual treat. He found him much better than 
he expected, though he was of opinion with me, that there was 
effusion in each side of his chest. He strongly recommended 
me to push the tonic plan to its utmost extent, and we decided 
upon giving him, three times a-day, pulv.zingib. pip. Jamaic. and 
pulv. rad. gentian, aa 3 ij in about a pint of ale and gruel; again 
to stimulate his chest and breast, and give him any thing he 
would eat. This treatment was adopted on the 7th and 8th, and 
he was decidedly better, especially on the 8th, when he fed on 
clover, hay, and vetches, more freely than he had since he had 
been ill, was more lively and active, and there was every pro- 
bability of his getting well. 
