A CASE OF GASTRITIS, PYROSIS, AND VOMITION. 75 
this date, in moderate farm work. I found her very ill. She 
was vomiting, per nasum, large quantities of a fluid similar to 
saliva in appearance. The pulse was fluttering, imperceptible to 
the feeling, and almost inaudible in auscultation. The external 
mucous membranes were pale and watery ; the mouth and ears 
cold ; the extremities of variable temperature ; and she evinced 
great pain when pressed on the left hypochondrium. She fre- 
quently lay down and groaned. 
Mr. James Glover had abstracted five quarts of blood from the 
jugular, and had administered a ball and draught supplied to 
him by a neighbour as a specific for all enteritic affections. She 
had been raked, but the dung appeared tolerably healthy. 
Not knowing of what the ball consisted, 1 hesitated at first to 
prescribe for her ; but seeing that she was getting worse, and that 
the ejection of the fluid increased, I ordered the following 
draught: — Ext. belladonna 3ij, acid, hydrocyan. 3j,liq. potassse 
3ij, tinct. opii 3 v b sp. aether, nit. 3iij> aq. tepidm Oj. I caused 
her sides to be well rubbed with an embrocation composed of liq. 
ainmon. fort., sp. terebinth, et lin ., saponis co. partes aequales; 
and to be kept perfectly quiet. 
In twenty minutes after the administration of the draught, 
she not only appeared to be free from pain, but so great was the 
sedative influence of the medicine, that the mare was apparently 
asleep. She remained in this state about forty minutes, when she 
got up. Vomition had ceased, and she appeared more free from 
pain. The pulse was becoming more distinct, but still fluttered, 
numbering, as near as I could tell, about 70 or 74 per minute. 
I ordered the legs to be hand-rubbed and bandaged ; some thin 
gruel to be put into her manger, and that she should be kept 
without dry food. 
24 th. — Better ; free from pain ; the sides tender ; vomition 
has ceased from the time she had the draught ; pulse 50, weak, 
and better altogether. Give acid, hydrocyan. 3j, tinct. opii, 3vi, 
sp. aether nit. 3 iv, aquae Oj. 
From this date, by the administration of sedative medicine, 
combined with diffusible stimulants, daily, she quickly recovered, 
but had not been at work more than three or four days ere she 
had another attack. By treatment similar to the above the mare 
soon came about again, though this was not so severe as the 
other illness. 
In The Veterinaiuan for November last, page 348, Mr. 
Pritchard says, “ Dogs and carnivorous quadrupeds vomit with 
facility ; but it is exceedingly difficult in the horse . ” In another 
place he observes, “ I think it possible, under states of dying 
collapse, when the vital energies of the frame are so far exhausted 
