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it’ter having regained some of her lost strength, and having 
3ecome able to t&ke a little walking exercise, was once more 
'egarded to be in the sure road of recovery. This was confided 
n the more from the circumstances of her appetite, which had 
mly been for a few days at the commencement impaired, at this 
ime being very good, and also from her taking so much rest, 
oy day as well as by night, in the recumbent posture. 
She was now 7 become convalescent, and continued, though cer- 
ainly very slowly, we thought to improve; when, on the 24th of the 
nonth,she got a sudden paroxysm of hurried respiration and pulse, 
ittended with a cold and profuse sweat of body, which for some 
ittle time rather alarmed us. I had her instantly bled ; but she 
3egan to stagger and breathe still quicker while the blood was 
dowly trickling from her, although she had not lost a quart. 
i>he was in consequence pinned up. Soon afterwards she lay 
town, stretched out at full length, in which posture she was, by 
jeing closely shut up, allowed to compose herself. In the course 
)f an hour she seemed better, from that time began to recover, 
ose up and drank some water, and the next day appeared again 
is well as if nothing had happened. 
On the 9th of February, on seeing her walk out (as was my 
morning custom) I found her halting exceedingly with the off 
fore leg: I examined it, and it proved to be precisely similar 
to a sprain, so that, had I been ignorant of its spontaneous 
origin, I should have called it a “ sprain in the back sinews.” I 
could not at the time, nor have I been able since to account for 
it. By fomentations, cold lotions, and bandaging, the swelling 
and tenderness in it abated, and also the lameness ; but she did 
not walk sound upon the limb afterwards, up to the very day of 
her death. 
On the 18th of February (she having in the interval so slowly 
and imperceptibly progressed towards amelioration, if indeed at 
all, that one could scarce call it improvement), I first observed a 
general puffy tumefaction forming under the jaw : to appearance 
it looked like strangles; but to feel, it was evidently oedematous. 
At this time there was no other mark of dropsy visible whatever. 
I had, however, noticed a little before this, that she seemed to 
gain strength very slowly ; and that, although there was no de- 
tectible evidence of any disease existing, still the mare was very 
perceptibly dull and depressed: her appetite and disposition to 
lie down, however, inspired me with hopes that all were, or at all 
events would yet end, well. 
On the 20th I perceived, for the first time (and I saw her 
daily, generally twice, sometimes thrice), a return of her ana¬ 
sarca: there was a diffuse swelling under the belly, which gra- 
