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EXTRACTS FROM CASE-BOOK. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
I send you my name and address as vouchers for the authen¬ 
ticity of the following cases. They are every-day cases; on 
that account, perhaps, the more valuable. We wish to know 
how our brethren treat these every-day cases. In the manage¬ 
ment of them we are apt to be a great deal too careless, and 
sometimes very sadly to blunder. Something out of the way 
may rouse our attention; but here we go to sleep, and too fre¬ 
quently very injuriously commit ourselves. If you think the 
present batch worth insertion in your valuable periodical, I 
may, probably, send you others of the same stamp. Amicus. 
SUPERPURGATION AND CHEST AFFECTION. 
June 1 5th, 1830.—A horse, three years old, had strangles 
about a month ago. He has continued to cough, and that cough 
has lately considerably increased. The owner, who is very fond 
of doctoring his own horses, began on the 12th to give a drachm 
and a half of aloes morning and night. On the night of the 13th 
the horse began to purge; nevertheless, a fifth dose was given 
yesterday morning. I saw him at eight o’clock in the evening. 
He refuses to eat, purges every quarter of an hour, is constantly 
lying down and getting up, rolling, looking at his flanks, kick¬ 
ing his belly, groaning: pulse sixty-five, small, yet hard; ex¬ 
tremities coid; membrane of the nose a very light pink, with 
streaks of injected vessels. Bleed to ten pounds, and give of 
pow dered opium one drachm, pow dered oak bark tw r o drachms, 
ginger half a drachm, and spirit of nitrous aether an ounce, and 
throw up injections of gruel. 
I6th .~6 a.m. The purging is stopped, the horse no longer 
rolls, nor is there any expression of pain, but the horse heaves 
more at the flanks: the pulse is seventy, but not so hard. Give 
drink, of digitalis one drachm, emetic tartar a drachm and a half, 
nitre three drachms, and spirit of nitrous aether an ounce. 
4 p. m. The horse heaves a great deal more, and is con¬ 
tinually walking round and round his box: he does not cease for 
a minute to do this. The countenance is haggard and wild,- — 
something like delirium appears to be approaching: the mem¬ 
brane of the nose much more reddened: pulse seventy-two, 
fuller, and yet hard. Bleed to ten pounds, injections of gruel, 
and drink of laudanum half an ounce, and nitre tw r o drachms. 
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