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the 13th, for until then I had only cleaned that part of the inte- 
gument to which the pus was attached. 
14 th . — We commenced giving him a small quantity of corn 
mixed with a mash, and ceased to administer the clysters. We 
also put a small quantity of good hay in his rack. 
This regimen was continued until the 25th. The horse improved 
every day. He was evidently recovering his strength, and walked 
without tottering much. When he was moved the discharge of 
the fluid from the lower wound was abundant. It continued to 
be purulent, slightly clotted, and with very little smell. 
26th . — The appearances were the same ; we added a little more 
corn to the ration of the preceding days, and we very gradually 
augmented the water. 
March 1 st . — The bandage fell from the orifice in the flank; 
the wound, although it was still very deep, no longer communi- 
cated with the abdominal cavity, and was about the size of a 
two-franc piece, and suppurated a little. Ilis food was somewhat 
increased. 
From this time until the 29th of March a great quantity of 
purulent liquid flowed from the wound in the belly. The sub- 
cutaneous cellular tissue which surrounded the wound was infil- 
trated with this liquid, particularly towards the anterior part of 
the wound. 
On the 4th of April, l opened two small tumours which were 
the result of the accumulation of the purulent liquid from the 
abdomen in the sub-cutaneous cellular tissue of the belly. 
From this time until the 13th of April there was a constant 
flow of purulent fluid from the wound in the belly ; but the quan- 
tity was daily diminishing. The wound in the flank was quite 
healed on the 14th. 
On the 29th he was put entirely on dry meat, given in a mo- 
derate quantity. 
The horse had at first become very thin, but he had now nearly 
recovered his condition. 
He was dismissed from the infirmary on the 25th of May ; and 
was put to gentle exercise. He returned to his ordinary work 
towards the commencement of June. 
The wound in the belly did not heal until much later, some 
drops of liquid still continuing occasionally to flow even to the last 
days of May. 
In summing up this case, it will be perceived that, in conse- 
quence of a coptused wound that penetrated into the abdominal 
cavity, there was an abundant hemorrhage, a part of the blood 
flowing into the abdominal cavity : this blood mixed with the pe- 
ritoneal serosity, and became altered in character. A very small 
