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A FRACTURED RIB 
found. I closed the orifice with a few stitches and adhesive 
plaster, and prescribed mashes and boiled turnips as her regimen. 
Being at Molesden on the 22d, I was requested to see her, 
as she was considerably off her feed. On examination, I found 
her labouring under constipation from indigestion. I administered 
sulph. mag. ^xij; ol. lini. ^x; croton, tig. 9j, after the 
operation of which her appetite was quite restored, and she got 
rapidly into condition. 
On the 3d of June, I was again called to her assistance. The 
previous evening was the first of leaving her in the pasture for the 
night since her illness ; but she not being disposed to remain, in 
attempting to jump over a swing stile placed there for the con¬ 
venience of foot pasengers, unluckily entangled herself upon the 
top, and continued fixed in that position until five o’clock next 
morning, where she was found nearly exhausted. She was 
conveyed home in a cart, and, on my arrival, I found her sides 
very much swollen and hard; the respiration increased, the 
pulse frequent, and the extremities cold. The owner had 
opened the jugular vein, but could get not more than two pounds 
of blood : 1 opened both the subcutaneous abdominal ones, 
from which were obtained six pounds in copious streams. I 
then administered sulph. mag. ^xij; nit. potass. 3j ; and ordered 
frequent fomentations to her sides, and bran mashes as her 
regimen. 
4 th .—The bowels being confined, the draught repeated. 
5th .—Bowels freely opened ; pulse frequent; respiration much 
increased. I gave her nit. potass. 3iv; antim. tart. 3j; digit, fol. 
9j, morning and night. 
6th .—The medicine repeated; the extremities very cold. Hand¬ 
rubbing and bandages applied to the legs. 
9 th .—Appetite much impaired; pulse a little reduced; 
extremities natural temperature: gave potass, sup. tart. Sij; 
gent. rad. et cort. cinchona a a 3iss; digit, fol. 9iss. 
11 th .—Pulse natural standard, but weak; appetite much 
restored ; the tumefied parts soft, and indentations from pressure 
remain. I made several incisions on the cedematous part, from 
which she evinced no pain. A copious discharge of serum was 
established, and fomentations ordered to be applied. 
18fA.—The tumefied parts of the sides were considerably 
diminished, but there was a line of separation on each, in cir¬ 
cumference about eighteen inches, sloughing having taken place. 
I cut away the whole of the dead parts, and applied a solution of 
chloride of lime daily. I now discovered that two of the ribs on 
the right side were fractured (an apprehension I entertained 
from the first of the accident, but it was impossible to ascertain 
