338 ON THE PRESENT INFLUENZA AMONG HORSES. 
save a counter-irritant which we could not make act, or an in- 
ternal medicine whose action became extremely dubious, if not 
positively hurtful, what was to be done? I repeat, I made up 
my mind to experiment on the surgeon’s remedy in the same 
disease, viz., mercury*, and that I have had some reason to feel 
gratified at the result, will, I think, appear from the following 
cases : — 
Case I. — On the 8th April last, a colt, rising five years old, was 
taken unwell at 7 o’clock, p.m., manifesting the usual (epidemic) 
symptoms of dulness, sore throat, cough, feverishness, quickened 
pulse, mouth hot and moist, membranes of the nose and eyes in- 
jected, extremities warm, appetite defective, respiration unaffected. 
Being in good (fat) condition and in hard meat, he was mode- 
rately bled ; then had an aperient administered, and his throat 
rubbed with the liniment, ammoniae et terebinthinae, and put 
into a box, warmly clothed and bandaged. 
April 9th. — Still dull, but has eaten his mashes, not being 
allowed hay. Lies down much. His dung is in hard balls — 
give him a simple enema. This brought away some quantity of 
faeces, and seemed to render him livelier. 
10th. — Very gloomy, and his pulse has risen to 100, and yet 
its beat is such as evidently will not bear the abstraction of more 
blood. The respiration, however, is quiet. His mouth is in- 
tensely hot, and his throat apparently very sore. Coughs 
faintly. Insert a rowel in the breast, and rub both breast and 
sides with the liniment. Dangerously ill, however, as he is, 
something more must be done. Try mercury. Give this ball 
twice a-day : R Hydrarg. chlorid. 3j, farin. avense ^ss, terebinth, 
vulg. q. s., fiat bob, and let him be removed into a box with a 
southern aspect. In walking thither — a distance of not thirty 
yards — he quite staggered in his gait, evidently labouring under 
much prostration of strength. 
11 th. — Gloomy and desponding — pulse 84 — mouth not so 
hot, and nose saponaceous — fever somewhat abated — has dunged 
in balls — lies down occasionally. Rowell swelling, with some 
appearance of discharge. Let him take his ball thrice a-day, 
and repeat the liniment to the breast and sides. Let his water 
be chilled, and offer him a handful of hay. 
12 th. — About the same as yesterday, only that a discharge 
appears at the off-nostril, of a dirty yellow-looking (sero-albumi- 
nous) matter, and increasing when he coughs. Eats a little hay 
* I hesitated whether I ought to combine the calomel with opium. Sur- 
geons always find it necessary to do so, in order to guard the bowels. I have 
tried it, first, without. 
