852 CASE OF ACUTE INFLAMMATION OF THE 
wards, the head steamed. As late as eleven o’clock on the night 
of the 11th, happening to be near his box, looking at another 
patient, I saw the subject of’ the present case, w f ho, up to that 
hour, remained free from any other disturbance than what has 
been noticed. 
At seven o’clock the next morning I found him in a state of 
suffering and danger which I certainly little anticipated, and the 
less so, as the circumstances under which I left him overnight 
were such as least of all could dispose him to such consequences, 
*—viz. loose in a spacious apartment, having free access with the i 
external air; having in the morning lost blood, and being at the 
time under the operation of mild aperient, diuretic, and (for aught 
I know) diaphoretic medicine. I found him labouring under one 
of the most violent attacks of bronchitis —inflammation of the 
mucous membrane lining the air-passages—I ever witnessed : his- 
respirations reckoned upwards of a hundred per minute; he 
puffed hard at the' nostrils, and heaved laboriously and painfully 
with his flanks; his pulse, though greatly accelerated, was not 
quite so frequent as his respiration; his countenance betrayed 
extreme inward oppression; his breath felt hot, his mouth dry, 
his legs cold; and there w r as an oozing of amber-coloured sero- 
purulent matter from the nose, which had much fouled the nos¬ 
trils by its adhesiveness. It is scarcely worth while to add, that 
he turned with a loathing aversion from both food and water. 
Instantly, 10 lbs. of blood were drawn (that quantity being 
found as much as he could bear), and this succeeded by the 
administration of a drachm of fresh-powdered hellebore, in com¬ 
bination with a drachm of purging mass. In about an hour after 
the loss of blood, there was some slight intermission perceptible, 
but it was very slight. He continued all day long in a highly 
precarious state. 
In the evening the ball was repeated. He was no better. 
Being deprived of water altogether, he occasionally sipped gruel, 
which w r as all the sustenance he took. 
Next morning the symptoms indicated fresh aggravation of the 
disease. He w^as bled to Gibs.; took the same ball; had a rowel 
inserted into his breast; and a strong blister applied all over the 
surface of the rowel, and thence extended upward along the neck, 
as high as the throttle. He sipped some gruel occasionally; but 
only when urged to it by holding the pail to his nose, and wetting 
his muzzle by jerking the bucket up against it. He still con¬ 
tinued to refuse to look even at any kind of provender, wh ether 
drv or green. 
At seven o’clock this evening’ he was no better. From the un- 
remitting rapidity of his pulse and respiration: from the ex- 
