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AFFECTION OF THE BRAIN. 
perfectly healthy ; and I considered it merely as depending upon 
the violent action of the diaphragm and other abdominal muscles 
pressing on the viscera during the act of coughing. The symp¬ 
toms sufficiently indicated inflammation of the lungs ; for which 
I treated her in the usual way, with the addition of cold astrin¬ 
gent injections thrown up the vagina every two or three hours. 
On the next day (20th) I found the uterus w r as prolapsed less 
frequently, and all the other symptoms mitigated. On the 21st 
the uterus had not protruded; the pulse was 45 ; the breathing less 
difficult; and cough very considerably relieved. From this time 
she improved gradually; and in two or three days was quite 
well. 
The owner of the mare had purchased her only three days 
previous to her illness, and did not know any thing of her history ; 
but, from the appearance of her teats, I presume, that she may 
have borne a foal. 
A CASE OF AFFECTION OF THE BRAIN. 
By Mr. Rickwood, Bedford. 
About three in the morning on the 16th of last month, I 
was sent for to the Swan Hotel, in this town, to attend a 
mare which had just come in with the Leed’s mail from Shefford, 
a nine-mile stage. She was staggering about the place, and her 
mouth filled with foam*. She would move in the direction of any 
sound, and was disposed to seize any substance within her reach ; 
pulse scarcely perceptible," pupils much dilated, with little or 
no vision (amaurosis compressionis). The respiration was la¬ 
borious : there were symptoms of palsy of the lower extremities, 
and the muscles of locomotion were generally affected. She was 
old and lean, though well fed, as those horses generally are. 
She was bled to the extent of twelve pounds, and seven drachms of 
aloes were given to her in solution. The drink was administered 
with much difficulty. Frequent clysters of warm water, with 
common salt, were added. 
Eleven o'clock , A . M .—The symptoms increasing, I opened 
the temporal veins on either side, from which she bled ra¬ 
pidly. As I was obliged to go into the country, I left her 
bleeding, with a person to watch her. On my return in the 
evening, the attendant informed me that the bleeding conti¬ 
nued until! her breathing became very difficult, accompanied 
* This secretion continued the whole day, which alarmed the helpers so 
much in the morning, that l could scarcely prevail on them to render me 
the necessary assistance. Her constant attempts to bite increased their 
suspicion. We have had rabid animals of late in the neighbourhood, which 
unfortunately have done much mischief. 
