AND COMPLICATED INFLAMMATION. 
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St/ !.—Bowels had not acted, and the extremities were a 
little cold. I had them rubbed with mustard embrocation, and 
bandaged up : the patient had been down comfortable in the 
course of the day. In the evening, the extremities and other parts 
of the body were quite warm. The respiration was still unplea¬ 
sant, but it is necessary to observe the horse was considered a 
little bad in the wind. Pulse was 50, with much weakness, 
which did not, in my opinion, warrant depletion, and, thinking 
that purging would soon come on, I had hoped that appearances 
would be more flattering, and that the patient would do well. 
9th. —The servant told me the horse was purging, and seemed 
comfortable; the extremities and surface continued warm : the 
rowel acted properly ; the pulse now 70, and soft: the animal con¬ 
tinued purging all that day. 
10^//.—Pound the patient still purging, but not violently. The 
extremities and surface of the body as before; the pulse 70, with 
great debility; the lower surface of the abdomen swelled very 
much all the way towards the chest, and the hind legs likewise. 
I now administered cordial medicine to relieve the irritation of 
the bowels, which had the desired effect, and gave the horse a 
little better appetite. In the evening the faeces were natural, 
the patient more cheerful, the pulse 50, and the symptoms very 
flattering. Ordered the horse gruel, and any thing he would 
eat: he lay down in the night. 
11th .—Found the patient more easy; the purging had ceased ; 
pulse 50, but the respiration still laborious. 1 administered sto¬ 
machic balls to create an appetite. Notwithstanding the respi¬ 
ration was not pleasing, the appearances in every other respect 
were promising. In the evening the pulse was 45, and the feeces 
rather hard. 
12th. —In the morning every thing was, in appearance, going 
on “satisfactory; however, in the evening I found the bowels dis¬ 
posed to constipate, and evident marks of sudden weakness: the 
surface of the body, &c. as before, and the pulse 55. I gave an 
alterative ball containing 3if s of aloes, to keep up gentle action 
of the bowels. 
13 th. —Found the patient considerably worse ; the bowels act¬ 
ing ; the pulse 70 ; the extremities and surface of the body, as 
before, very warm and comfortable; but no appetite. Extreme 
weakness precluding the possibility of depletion, I gave sedative 
medicine to lower the increased action of the heart. In the 
evening there was no improvement; all the pleasing and favourable 
symptoms we had before observed were vanished, and I consi¬ 
dered the patient lost. 
14 th. —The horse was in the same state ; medicine had no 
