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To the Editor of the Veterinarian. 
Sir ; 
HAVING read in the third number of ‘^The Veterinarian/* 
page 101, a similar case to the following ones, I have sent them 
for insertion if you think them worthy. 
I am. Sir, your humble servant, 
W. A. Cartwright. 
Whitchurch, Salop, - 
May 16 , 1828 . 
RUPTURE OF THE DIAPHRAGM, See! 
Case I. On Tuesday, 11th March, 1828, about three o’clock 
in the afternoon, I was sent for to see a mare belonging to a 
coach proprietor. The mare having been hard worked was 
kept at home for three or four days ; her legs then beginning to 
swell she was walked out about half a mile ; but her respiration 
getting very laborious she was led home: she had had a very 
bad couo;h and a discharo;e from her nostrils a week or more. 
Symptoms. Respiration similar to that in a severe case of in¬ 
flamed lungs. Coughs with difficulty and that very weakly, 
and makes a rattling noise in her throat. Pulse about 60, but 
full and bounding. Mouth hot and dry. I then took about 
five quarts of blood from her and gave her a ball composed of 
aloes cape, jss. pulv. veratri 9j. resinee flav. ^ss. 
Six, p. m. About this time she began to have every symp¬ 
tom of enteritis (except the pulse, which w^as strong and full): 
I then took about four quarts more blood from her. 
Eight, p. m. No better. I now took, I should think, three 
or four quarts more blood from her when lying on the ground, 
and which was as much as she could bear, being very thiq.—It 
was a little buffed. 
Nine, p. m. No better. Respiration very bad, and she is 
every two or three minutes getting up and down, but rarely rolls 
on her back. Pulse full and from 60 to 70, but has not the feel 
exactly as in enteritis. Breaks wind a good deal when tumbling 
about, but is not swelled. The bleeding not having given the 
least relief, and, from the last mentioned symptoms being pre¬ 
sent, I determined on trying the following R : sps. terebinth. Jj. 
tinct. opii Jss. aqua bulbient Ibj.; about half an hour after I 
gave tinct. opii §ss. aqua menth. pip. gij. which gave a little re- 
VoL. I.—No. 6. z 
