194 REMARKS ON A CASK OF ENTERITIS IN A MARE 
become more urgent, 1 requested that more blood should be sub- 
tracted, and a draughtbe given composed of sol. aloes §iij, ol. lin. 
Oj, pulv. opii 3jss. _ 
On Sunday morning, Feb. 20th, I again visited my patient. 
I found her rather worse than on the preceding day. Her bowels 
had not been opened, nor was there any prospect of their being so. 
Her breathing was still short and hurried — the pulse 60, and weak 
— the legs and ears warm : she did not tremble quite so much as 
yesterday, but she frequently endeavoured to strike her belly 
with her hind legs. 
I learned that, about eleven o’clock on the previous evening, the 
owner, in order to encourage, as he said, the physic to operate, 
had been exercising her for some considerable time, during which 
she made many fruitless efforts to dung. 
About two o’clock on the following morning (Sunday) she 
began to be more restless, to breathe very laboriously, and, on 
the whole, to appear much worse. In short, it was the opi- 
nion of those present that she was about to die. 
The owner having abstracted more blood, and administered the 
medicine as directed, she again became easier, and continued so 
until the time I saw her, which was about eleven o’clock, a.m. 
Immediately on my arrival I gave her a dose of the watery 
solution of opium, which speedily afterwards afforded much 
relief. I then caused the mare to be turned round in the box, 
when the bystanders expressed their opinion that she appeared 
much improved. Her breathing became perfectly tranquil; she 
drank a few quarts of lukewarm water, and commenced eating a 
little hay. 
I informed my employer that, although there was no decided 
improvement as yet, I had every reason to prognosticate that the 
mare would eventually do well. A draught consisting of sol. 
aloe, and linseed oil was ordered to be given in the evening, 
providing the bowels should not be freely opened. 
On Monday morning I paid another visit to my patient, and 
was much disappointed in finding that her bowels had not been 
operated upon. 
According to the opinion of those about her, no change what- 
ever seemed to have taken place ; and she certainly appeared to 
me to be in the same state as when I left her the day before. At 
this period, however, the owner of the mare made his appearance, 
and said, that a person had told him that if she were back-raked 
she would get well immediately, as some one had, by this opera- 
tion, cured a mare affected in the same way. Two or three of the 
owner’s sons had, accordingly, been sent off into various parts of 
the neighbourhood in search of a certain individual, who, accord- 
