54 DISLOCATION AND FRACTURE OF THE SPINE. 
back on the curb stone. After he had been home about an hour I 
saw him. The grooms were fomenting him with hot water. 
On looking over him, I found all four legs a good deal injured, 
and there was a considerable wound on his withers. I ordered the 
fomentation to be continued three times during the night, and gave 
him five drachms of Cape aloes, with one drachm each of pow- 
dered opium and tartarized antimony, made into a ball with lin- 
seed meal. 
It would have been thought that such injuries as these would 
have indicated copious bleeding, but the pulse, so far as I under- 
stood it, had told me not to bleed, for I could scarcely feel it, and 
when I could perfectly recognize it, it too much resembled that of 
the horse sinking under influenza. 
On the following day the pulse was the same. The withers 
were excessively swollen. I punctured them freely and deeply, 
and a considerable quantity of blood escaped. The fomentations 
were continued during the day. The withers were dressed with a 
digestive ointment. 
On the third day the horse did not appear to suffer much, but 
he had become exceedingly feeble. He dunged and staled pretty 
well. 
On the fourth day I inserted a rowel into his chest, and like- 
wise passed setons downward from the mouth of the wound in 
the withers. The fomentations and dressings were continued, and 
I gave him two drachms of aloes, and one each of opium and tar- 
tarised antimony. 
On the fifth day the pulse still continued the same. The stench 
from the wound was dreadful. I dressed it several times during 
the day with a solution of chloride of lime, and told the owner 
that I had no hope whatever of saving him. 
He lingered on until the seventh day, when he died. 
On opening him on the following morning, we found the third 
dorsal vertebra dislocated, and several of the processes of the spine 
were broken, although the skin was not inj ured externally. The 
right lobe of the liver was in a complete state of rottenness, so 
much so that it would scarcely bear taking out. It was of a pale, 
clay colour. The other abdominal organs seemed to have suffered 
very little. Am I to attribute the peculiarity of the pulse to the 
diseased state of the liver 1 
