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tories on the right hypochondrium, and the evil increased. The 
disease was uniformly aggravated after the abstraction of blood. 
I repeated this treatment on many horses, and with the same 
result. Some of my patients fell and expired after the bleeding 
from the jugular. 
I was then compelled to have recourse to an opposite mode of 
treatment; and although I was somewhat prejudiced against it at 
first, I soon became fully sensible of its value, for almost perfect 
success began to crown my proceedings. Nourishing diet, varied, 
and administered in small quantities and frequently, barley mashes, 
astringent decoctions, solutions of alum, sulphate of iron in doses 
of two or three drachms — the administration of two or three ounces 
of oil of turpentine, gentle exercise and cold baths, soon produced 
a favourable change in the patient, and effected a cure in twenty 
or thirty days. Great benefit was derived from the alternate use 
of some of these medicaments. 
Injections, the dashing of cold water on the loins, wine and 
l’eau-de-vie, were likewise useful. The acetate of potash, in doses 
of two ounces, every second day, was evidently attended with good 
effect. This salt had great influence in recalling the appetite. 
[To be continued.] 
A SCIRRHOUS TUMOUR IN THE LUMBAR REGION 
OF A MULE THAT DIED OF ENTERITIS. 
By M. Laux, M. V. at Cruri. 
On the 19th of April 1836, I was requested to attend an old 
mule that had been ill eight or ten days. She had been under 
the care of a farrier, and had been treated in the manner that is 
usual among those people in our country. 
SYMPTOMS. — Extreme emaciation — the skin dry and sticking 
to the bones — the spine curved downwards, and very tender — the 
respiration loud and painful — the pulse small, and, occasionally, 
not to be felt — the head carried low, and with heat about the 
frontal region — the countenance depressed, and the eyes weeping — 
the conjunctiva yellow, and its venous ramifications injected — the 
mouth pale and clammy, sometimes hot, but, oftener, extremely 
cold, the muzzle having also this variable temperature — the faecal 
matter covered with yellow mucus, and the urine abundant and 
thick. 
These symptoms became aggravated at night. During the day 
they almost disappeared, leaving the animal in a state of quietude 
very likely to deceive the careless examiner. 
