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RUPTURE OF TUP: STOMACH. 
off. Then once or twice a day, according to circumstances, 
lighten its weight with a sharp pair of scissors. These, then, form 
the three principal features of my plan— the splint , no covering , 
and allowing the clot to remain . 
Bleeding, both local and constitutional, alterative medicine, 
slinging, low diet, &c. are agents to be used as circumstances 
may require. 
One thing, however, I have always employed, viz. a solution 
of chloride of lime with water, about one part of the chloride to 
four, five, or six of water. With this lotion the wound should 
be bathed four or five times a day. It answers three good pur¬ 
poses—it keeps down granulations ; is a powerful corrector of 
unhealthy tendencies; and, for aught I know, assists in coagu¬ 
lating the synovia. 
Veterinary Dispensary, 33J, Guildford Street, 
Russell Square, Sep. 12,1834. 
RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH. 
By Mr. Firman Fuller, V. S\, March, Cambridgeshire . 
Aug.2d, 1834.— A chestnut mare, six years old, the property 
of the Rev. A. Peyton, of Doddington rectory, had returned from 
London a few days previous, where she had an attack of in¬ 
fluenza. The groom informed me that he had bled her and given 
her some fever medicine during her journey, in consequence of her 
having inflammatory symptoms. The following were the symp¬ 
toms when I first saw her:—Pulse 60; hurried respiration; 
mouth particularly hot and dry; conjunctiva and Schneiderian 
membranes highly inflamed ; great tenderness about the pharynx 
and larynx, which occasioned difficulty of swallowing; the feeces 
indurated and slimy. 
I abstracted 81fes. of blood ; after which I gave her aloes 3iii, 
with a little fever medicine, and stimulated the throat and the 
course of the trachea with the infusion of cantharides. I also 
ordered mash diet and gruel, and that she should be placed in a 
loose box. 
3d, a.m. —Pulse 45; febrile symptoms mitigated; the dress¬ 
ing to the throat acted effectually. There is now swelling of the 
extremities, particularly about the hocks and knees; the faeces 
much the same. I gave her aloes 3iss, ant. tart., digitalis, et 
nit. pot. aa 3i, in a ball; and repeated the medicine at night, 
omitting the aloes. I threw up a gallon of gruel as an enema. 
Mashes and gruel as before. 
