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After the medicines had been given a few days the pulse began 
to improve, the eyes to brighten, the coat to feel more healthy, and 
the mare was not so frequently down ; but her appetite did not much 
improve until the tonic medicines were given; after which she be¬ 
gan to feed well, and was ultimately got into excellent condition, 
and sold for fifty guineas, when I lost sight of her, and have not 
heard of her since. 
HAEMOPTYSIS. 
By Charles Percivall, Esq. V.S. Royal Artillery. 
A GENTLEMAN residing in my neighbourhood requested my 
attendance on the 4th inst. in consultation with Mr.-, upon a 
grey mare, with hemorrage from the lungs. The mare, I was given 
to understand, had been attacked with bleeding from the nose on 
the 1st instant, which the owner (notwithstanding the mare had 
lost six or seven quarts of blood) considered of no consequence, 
thinking she had received a blow or some injury on the head. 
Mr.-, a practitioner on the spot, was, however, called in, who 
did nothing but administer three two-scruple doses of digitalis. 
A return of the hemorrhage exciting the alarm of the gentleman, I 
was accordingly sent for. Upon my arrival, I found blood sticking 
about both nostrils, the walls of the box, in which the mare was 
running loose, besmeared in every direction, and between three 
and four quarts in the manger, with every appearance of a consi¬ 
derable quantity diffused amongst the litter. Still the mare did not 
appear faint or much affected by the loss of blood. The breathing, 
chiefly the expiration, was attended with some degree of difficulty— 
the extremities and surface of the body very cold—mouth warmer 
than natural—pulse between 60 and 70, beating with that degree of 
force which did not denote a weakened or debilitated system. In 
consulting with my brother practitioner, I expressed a wish to have 
the mare bled, and, quietly, a little surprise that he had not made 
use of his lancet before. He replied, he was afraid so to do, think¬ 
ing she was too much weakened by the blood she had already lost. 
I did not hesitate, however, to open the jugular vein, and ex¬ 
tracted, somewhat to his surprise, rather better than six quarts of 
blood, which she bore tolerably well; the legs being, as already 
stated, icy cold, I recommended their being well stimulated with 
equal parts spirits tereb. et ol. lini., to apply flannel bandages, and 
administer half an ounce of Barbadoes aloes, and to follow this up 
with small doses until the bowels were freely o})en; upon which 
1 took my leave, as 1 supposed, of the case, not wishing to interfere 
