COMBINED WITH DROPSY. 
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sation at the jaw ceased: I pinned up, and administered aloes 
3ii, nitre siii, soap sii. 
Jan . 2, 11 a.m. —Pulse 80, but so small as scarcely to be felt: 
respiration a little quick ; a light blueish tint is thrown over the 
Schneiderian membrane, but it is not more vascular than in health; 
temperature of the extremities and mouth natural, but the saliva 
is very viscid ; bowels a little relaxed ; faeces very offensive : the 
blood that was abstracted yesterday was not buffed, but the 
coagulation was far from being firm : respired breath warm. I 
thought it advisable to remove the horse to my infirmary, his own 
stable being too warm : the distance was about five hundred 
yards. During the journey his nostrils were widely dilated, and 
my patient was evidently suffering great distress. In five hours 
I saw him : the cool box had quieted his breathing almost to a 
natural standard ; pulse 85 in a minute, but just as small and 
weak ; breath very offensive; the saliva like thick chalk and 
water. V.S. lb x, could not bear more; and administered 
aloes 3iij nitre 3iii, soap 3ii. 
Jan . 3.—On my entering his box, he raises his head and tail, 
and snorts with considerable strength and animation, not, as 1 
conceive, a horse would do under pneumonia. To an observer 
not accustomed to disease, nothing wrong would have been sus¬ 
pected ; and, in confirmation of this, a man who has been accus¬ 
tomed to horses for the last thirty-five years, said, “ Oh ! there 
is nothing a matter with he, sir !” The respiration is positively 
quiet; the surface of the body and extremities of a natural heat; 
but the pulse at the jaw presents a remarkable appearance, as it 
required the most perfect silence, and the whole of my attention, 
to count seventy-six small, weak, irregular pulsations in a minute: 
I could just make them out. The conjunctiva and Schneiderian 
membranes not so vascular as in health : the horse is not, or ever 
has been from the first attack, the least “ drawn up in the flank.” 
Lies down. There is such apparent contradiction, the symptoms 
are bewildering: I felt myself only warranted in giving a little 
fever medicine. 
Jan. 4.—On entering his box to-day, he raises his “ends,” 
and snorts with animation; pulse presenting nearly the same 
extraordinary phenomena as yesterday. If I were to say respi¬ 
ration was a little quicker than natural, it is all I should be war¬ 
ranted in affirming: faeces soft, and very offensive; breath 
and saliva as yesterday. Not at all drawn up in the flank. 
V.S. lb vi ; became faint; and the pulse at the jaw not per¬ 
ceptible to the touch : blood much buffed, but I could not help 
remarking that the serum was unusually yellow and opaque.— 
To take nitre 5ii ss morning and evening in his water. 
