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ASCITES IN THE HORSE. 
speedy relief—for the immediate adoption of such measures as we 
consider likely to arrest or subdue the spasm at once . It clearly 
shows us that it must prove a very hazardous practice to rely ex¬ 
clusively upon remedies which, however effectual they may be 
known to be when once brought into action, require a consider¬ 
able interval before they can begin to take effect. In a word 
this is a doctrine which calls on us in the most peremptory man¬ 
ner for boldness and decision in our practice. Prevent , it seems 
fo me, we sometimes may; but cure , we certainly cannot, such a 
case as the one before us. 
ASCITES IN THE HORSE, SEQUELiE OF CATARRH. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian.” 
Gentlemen, 
In the number of your truly valuable journal of last month, 
Mr. Percivall details a case of ascites combined with hydrotho¬ 
rax sequelae of pleuresy ; and he having expressed a desire to be¬ 
come acquainted with any other such case, I beg leave to lay be¬ 
fore you one very similar, which I had under treatment lately. 
I am, gentlemen, 
Your humble servant, 
p ,j . • ' M. S. Small. 
Perth, August 30, 1829. 
ON the 16th of June last I was called to a horse, aged, belono- 
ing to Mi. Weddle, of Muirtown, that had had a severe cold in 
the spring. Shortly after his recovery his hind legs beoan to 
swell, but which was attributed to his standing in the house idle: 
however, the swelling increased so rapidly over the body, that 
when I saw him on the 16th, he was in the following state :— 
His legs, all four, were swollen to about twice their natural size; 
a veiy large swelling spread over the whole under surface of the 
belly and chest, from the penis to the sternum; diffused swellings 
taking the course of the vertebrae along the neck to the head. 
His eyelids were much enlarged, and a tumour of a bright red 
colour proceeded from the inner surface of each eyelid, above and 
below, meeting in the centre, thereby making the horse com¬ 
pletely blind; and from the inner canthus a yellow serous fluid 
kept continually oozing out. The swellings were all oedematous. 
I ulse very quick and weak: he was very costive, but had a good 
appetite. Ordered to be removed to a loose house, and the swell- 
