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OBSCURF. DISK ASK IN A HORSK. 
The first discovery of the complaint was on the 18th of Sep- 
tember. The treatment has been as follows, viz. : local bleed- 
ing of the abdomen, vapour baths, opium, tartarized antimony, 
and calomel. This had stopped the purging, but the faeces still 
came away of a black colour, but which has slightly altered to a 
more brown one 
After the gut was cleansed with soapy water, 1 threw up an 
injection composed of treacle (for want of honey), oil, vinegar, 
and licpior potassii, mixed in linseed tea : it was immediately 
ejected ; but since that time the ulcers are much smaller. The 
pulse at first was hard and about 20 — now softer, 28. I submit 
this case to you, as I said at the commencement, because it is 
new, and deserving of notice. 
As the gentleman who was first consulted says I am one of the 
old school, and know nothing of the new mode of treatment, I 
should be obliged if you would inform me if the above, and the 
following, are according to the new school. This is the same 
gentleman I alluded to in my answer to an old artillery officer, in 
The Veterinarian for December 1840, p.685. 
Shortly after this I was sent for by Mr. Widdicombe, an ex- 
perienced farmer, to see a horse, whose case he described to me 
as follows : — “ Very stiff in his hind legs, scarcely able to move 
them— his tail erect — nose projected — and nostrils expanded. 
Saliva running from the mouth, which he could not open — and 
his eyes drawn into the sockets.” “Why,” said I, “ your horse 
has locked jaw!” “ To tell you the truth,” replied he, “ I 
called in Mr. David, and he told me the same; for I began to 
suspect Mr. did not understand the nature of his disease, 
as he has attended three horses of mine attacked in different 
ways, all of whom he pronounced to be labouring under influ- 
enza. Mr. David tells me this horse must die too.” 
After much entreaty I went and examined the horse, and 
found him as he described, and the mischief occasioned by a 
deep-seated abscess by the side of the scapula. I dissected it 
out, applied nitrate of silver, and covered it with a linseed poul- 
tice. As the pulse was hard and wiry, I bled him — opened the 
bowels, and covered him with sheeps’ skins, with the other reme- 
dies usual in such cases. The horse recovered. 
It appears that the first case he was called to attend was 
gripes ; but the spasms had passed off before he came. The 
second was locked jaw, and he left medicine accordingly. The 
third was a case of gorged stomach, from eating chaff : this 
horse was very weak, and, in attempting to rise, he fell against 
the wall and bruised his eyelids. 
