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CONSULTATIONS. 
brown colour and offensive smell. The secretion of milk partially 
returning, the skin being more loose, and rumination having re- 
turned, the owner thought her doing so well, that her medicine 
might be discontinued. He was, however, egregiously wrong, 
for, on the following day, she again shewed ail the signs of re- 
turning disease. 
I was once more requested to visit her. I found the discharge 
from the vagina quite suppressed, the secretion of milk entirely 
stopped, with all the unfavourable symptoms as before. We again 
had recourse to the treatment already described, and after giving a 
few doses improvement soon took place. In the course of a week 
she was convalescent. After this the owner kept her a few weeks, 
and then sold her, w T ith a plentiful flow of milk, to a person in 
the neighbourhood for a good round sum. 
CONSULTATIONS. 
No. XXV. 
Influenza. 
The influenza is now prevailing among the horses that come 
under my care to an alarming extent. The symptoms in the 
young horses are increased rapidity of the pulse, with a wiry 
feeling — cold extremities — staring coat — no appetite — and an 
evident staggering gait. 
The symptoms are nearly the same in the older horses, only 
the eyes are much swollen, with very considerable discharge. 
After your long and extensive practice, will you kindly tell me 
what course I should pursue ? 
I am, very thankfully your’s, 
F. Child. 
Swaffham, Jan. 16th, 1842. 
My dear Sir, — The influenza, or epidemic, among my horses, 
is bronchitis, preceded or ushered in by laryngitis, and by it ac- 
companied to its termination, nay, apparently outlived by it. 
The treatment that I adopt, and with general success, is a very 
simple one. In every case in which there is febrile disturbance 
of any moment, I bleed, but always moderately ; I then give an 
aperient, and order a mash diet, without hay, until the physic 
has operated. 
