CASE OF INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION IN A MARE. 745 
Avhen the water was offered she turned from it in disgust. The 
man came directly for me. 
I found her very uneasy, but not so much so as to cause any 
immediate alarm. The pulse was between 36 and 40, full and 
hard. I considered it to be some intestinal complaint—probably a 
fit of colic ; and I administered a pimento draught. At half past 
eight o’clock I repeated it, and then, having other business to attend 
to, I left her. 
At 11 o’clock she was lying down, and apparently worse. My 
assistant then saw her, and administered another pimento drink* 
At 12 o’clock 1 saw her, and the respiration and the pulse were 
decidedly quicker. I bled her to the amount of six quarts, and 
gave her one pint of linseed oil, two drachms of aloes, one ounce 
of tincture of opium, and an enema of soft soap and water. 
At 7 o’clock she was no better. I bled her again to the amount 
of five quarts, and repeated the drink. 
5//i, 7 A.M. —The pulse is 50, but weak ; she was more uneasy 
than before, and was continually lying down and getting up again 
immediately. I bled her again to the extent of six quarts, and at 
11, at 3, and 7 o’clock, I repeated the pimento draught. 1 also 
blistered the abdomen with tincture of cantharides. 
Qth .—I now began to have considerable fear respecting my 
patient; I therefore saw the owner, and told him what I thought 
about the case. He asked me if I had any objection to Mr. Bracy 
Clark seeing her, as he was a particular friend of his. Mr. Clark 
attended at 11 o’clock, and 1 was there when he came. 
He went up to the mare, and put his finger into her mouth, and 
then said that w'e had got it to a very nice point, but the case 
would terminate favourably. I did not think so, for my opinion 
was altogether different. He said, that we had only to decompose 
that poisonous oil. To accomplish this he first gave warm water 
with soda dissolved in it. He then got four eggs, and beat them 
into a mass with barley meal, and gave them in the form of balls. 
In the afternoon she was ordered to have another pimento drink. 
1th, 1 A.M. —She was much the same, and another pimento 
drink was given. 
At 11 o’clock Mr. Clark visited her again, and said that she had 
got well of the gripes; but the oil, if not got rid of, would certainly 
destroy her. 
Having no hope of her myself, and happening to meet my friend 
Mr. Fenwick, I mentioned the case to him, and we walked together 
to have a look at the patient. Mr. Fenwick went a very different 
way to work from Mr. Clark, in order to examine and form his 
opinion of the mare; and finding the pulse to be more than 80, 
and there being other unfavourable symptoms, he predicted that 
she would not live long. He tokl the owner he imagined that the 
