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QUICK CIRCULATION. 
By Mr. J. Tombs, Pershore. 
May 1840. — A black cart mare, in high condition, foaled 
with extreme difficulty. In two days after, not going on satis- 
factorily, the owner sent for me. I found her affected with in- 
flammation of the uterus and laminitis. The pulse exceeded 100, 
and remained so for eight days. She lay down incessantly, and 
could not get up without assistance. When up she could not 
walk, and the pain was greatly increased while standing, denoted 
by her pitiable countenance, and breathing excessively laborious. 
She fed sparingly, and drank largely. The feet were not very hot ; 
she looked back towards her flanks, and rolled about occasionally. 
She was purged freely, and had opiates and injections administered. 
She was bled repeatedly from the jugular and the circumflex artery 
of the feet, all being inflamed. The region of the uterus and the 
feet were bathed perpetually for five days after parturition, when 
an abundant discharge of pus took place, which gave considerable 
relief. 
On the eighth day after the attack she began to improve very 
much. In a fortnight I had her shod with a leather sole under 
the shoes. The jarring of the feet gave great pain, and crippled 
her for a day or two ; however she soon got upright, and suckled 
her colt, which was fed with cow’s milk during her illness. 
I do not register this case as having any peculiar novelty about 
it, but merely to eradicate an erroneous impression from some 
people’s minds, that animals never exist after the pulse has ex- 
ceeded 100 beats in a minute for a few days. 
Another patient, where the pulse was 95 for five successive days, 
was a roan cart mare, that had pneumonia last autumn. Her 
respiration was extremely quick and laborious, and her expira- 
tions were unusually deep. She was ill twenty-four hours before 
I visited her, and then she had been bled and had a diuretic 
given her. 
1 bled again, until I altered the character of the pulse, when 
she perspired profusely, and gaped. I then had her extremities 
rubbed and bandaged. Her diet was mashes. At the onset I gave 
laxatives and febrifuges; afterwards vegetable tonics combined 
with mild diuretics. 1 was obliged to bleed moderately twice after 
the first large quantity of blood that I had abstracted. I blis- 
tered the sides extensively, and inserted six setons in the breast 
and behind the fore legs before I could knock down the inflam- 
mation. In a week, however, she began to cough strongly, and 
discharge at the nostrils. When she was first attacked she could 
scarcely cough, being so inwardly sore. In a fortnight I struck 
her off the sick list. 
