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and drinks his chilled water. His breast is swollen a little, and 
a thin white-looking matter runs from the rowel while it is 
dressed. 
13^/i. — Symptoms little varied. Pulse 84 still. The mucous 
membranes have exchanged their red aspect for that of a dingy 
yellow ; and the gums since yesterday have acquired a pinkiness 
around the borders of the teeth, indicating that the mercury has 
got into the system, though as yet the breath is perfectly sweet 
and there is no soreness of the mouth. The only other visible 
effect of the mercury is a diuretic action. Give the ball but 
twice a-day. 
14th. — Diarrhoea. Pulse 78. In other respects unaltered. 
Omit the balls, and give immediately, pulv. cretae C. cum opio 
5j, in a pint of warm gruel, and repeat the drink in the 
evening if required. 
7 o'clock p.m. — -Still purges, therefore give another drink. 
1 5th. — Decidedly better — pulse 66 — is livelier and has more 
appetite — and drinks gruel, being allowed no water. His dung 
has become of the consistence of cow-dung ; and, therefore, there 
is no occasion to repeat the drink. 
1 6th. — Found him eating some coarse (clover sort of) hay. 
His legs are swollen, and feel quite hot underneath the bandages. 
Let him leave off the bandages. The skin is peeling off his throat 
and breast, from the effect of the liniment. The rowel discharges 
healthy pus. Dung en masse; gums not so pinky; appears 
now quite out of danger, and to require nothing but care and 
watching. 
18^. — This morning the wind is blowing keenly from the 
N.E., and its coldness has affected this patient, as well as all 
the others. He is lying down, and appears indisposed to rise. 
Do nothing but nurse him. 
20 th. — Visible improvement. 
22 d . — Pulse 48. Mending fast. 
26th. — Returned to his stable u convalescent." 
Case II is a very similar one to Case I, and occurred at the 
same date. 
This four-year-old colt was taken ill on the evening of the 7th 
April. 
His symptoms were of a milder character, at first, than those of 
Case I, and did not, up to the 11th April, call for any unusual 
interference. 
This morning (the 11th) he has grown more dejected — his 
pulse has risen to 72 — his mouth, not so hot as it was yesterday, 
has become saponaceous — his appetite is not so good as it has 
