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me to have any serious illness about him. He ate and drank as 
usual. Although he flinched a little when the loins were pressed 
upon, the flank was very little tucked up, and not at all agitated. 
The eye was bright, the mucous membranes slightly injected, and 
the walk firm. A few drops of blood of a red vermilion colour were 
on the litter ; they had a cylindrical form, of the apparent diameter 
of the ureter, and varied from five to eight inches in length. 
The diagnosis which I formed in my own mind was, that it was 
an arterial haemorrhage from the kidneys. Thinking that it might 
be produced by too stimulating food, and by the hard work to which 
the patient had lately been subjected, and also, I must confess, in 
order to gratify the wish of the owner, I began by administering 
three ounces of nitre every day, being divided into three drinks of 
thick gruel, and I also ordered absolute rest. Five days afterwards, 
a message was sent to me that the horse was considerably worse. 
2 5th . — When I arrived at the stable, I found the pulse small, 
feeble, and accelerated. The mucous membranes of the eyes and 
the mouth unnaturally pale — the flanks tucked up — the breathing 
quicker than in health — the expiration forcible, and somewhat con- 
vulsive and the weakness so much increased, that the animal stag- 
gered and stumbled as he walked. The muscles were flaccid to the 
touch — the ears, muzzle, and extremities, were cold — 'the patient 
did not absolutely reject his food, but he masticated it very slowly : 
he continued to evacuate with his urine, which was little or not at 
all coloured, some clots of blood of a scarlet colour, and which, as I 
have already said, were moulded as if they had passed through the 
ureter. 
My prognosis had little that was favourable about it, and, seeing 
the extreme debility of the animal, the Count proposed to have him 
destroyed. I entreated him to permit me to try a new medicament, 
which was spoken of as having produced good effect in cases of 
hsemorrhage. He consented. 
The course which I had to pursue was sufficiently plain, viz. to 
arrest the hsemorrhage under which the horse was sinking, and to 
favour the formation of more blood. Then to the creostote, 
whose power of arresting hsemorrhage I determined to put to the 
test, I added the subcarbonate of the peroxide of iron. This I 
hoped might fulfil the second indication without interfering with 
the first. On the same day I administered three drinks, each of 
them composed of the water of creostote two ounces*, the iron half 
an ounce, and half a bottle (a pint) of pure water. I placed com- 
presses wetted with cold water mixed with vinegar on the loins, and 
* The Eau de Creostote of the French consists of 1| part of creostote, 
and 100 parts of distilled water. 
