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NEPHRITIS AND PARAPLEGIA. 
dunged and urined well. The parts which she had bitten on the 
preceding night were very much swelled, and it was impossible 
to touch her on the left side, on account of the extreme sensibility 
of that region. We gave her warm gruel slightly nitrated, and 
ordered emollient injections and baths and fomentations of the 
same kind on the injured limb. The seton which was passed the 
night before discharged well. 
5 th . — The hind leg on the right side was no longer able to 
support its share of the weight of the animal, and there was evi- 
dent enlargement from the coronet to the hock. The body was 
supported by the right leg. 
6th . — A little strength had returned to the left hind leg. The 
fever of reaction was beginning to establish itself. The pulse was 
considerably developed, and the mare refused to take the gruel 
which she had before readily drunk. 
7th . — We abstracted four pounds of blood, which coagulated 
very slowly, and was of a yellow saffron colour with much gela- 
tine. From that time she began to improve. 
Case IV. 
March 7 th, 1839. — A saddle-horse belonging to the standard- 
bearer of the regiment had lived some years on dry food. He 
was a greedy animal, very fat, and of a sanguine temperament. 
During the six years that he had been in the regiment he had 
been once only on the sick list. He had this morning eaten his 
ration with less appetite than usual. He lay down after eating only 
a part of his oats, but soon got up again, and began to look at his 
flanks. He crouched under the hand of any one who touched 
him, and prepared to strike at him with his hind legs. His tail 
was in continual agitation upwards and downwards and from one 
side to the other. The general temperature of his body seemed 
to be a little lowered — the mucous membranes were of their 
natural colour — but the movements of the flanks were much 
quickened. In the different positions in which he occasionally 
placed his limbs, we could hear a curious noise in the joints re- 
sembling that of an electric spark. 
Emollient injections were ordered — warm clothing on the loins, 
and a restricted diet. At one o’clock the pulse was considerably 
developed. We opened the saphena vein and abstracted six pounds 
of blood, rich and fibrinous. Three hours afterwards the animal 
evacuated with considerable pain some hard pellets of dung. 
We gave an opiate containing an ounce of the laudanum of 
Sydenham*. 
* This is an old preparation, containing one-eighth of its weight of opium. 
