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SEVERE CASE OF ACUTE FOUNDER, IN WHICH 
DEATH WAS PRODUCED BY EXTREME IRRITA¬ 
TION. 
jBj/ Mr. Horsburgh, F.N., Castleton, N. B. 
On Friday night last I was sent for to see a mare that w’as 
said to be foundered. She had run to Edinburgh the night be¬ 
fore, had come home late, and did not appear ill; but in the 
morning she was so stiff that she could not move. She had been 
bled from the neck and from the plate veins in the forenoon, and 
had had a ball of aloes ^viij about nine o’clock at night. I found 
her standing with her head wedged, as it were, into one corner of 
the manger, and bent a little on one side, from which positiori,it 
was almost impossible to put her back. The legs were stiff and 
wide apart, the tall elevated ; the body, legs, ears, and nose had 
a natural heat; pulse 78, respiration 50, the flanks heaving vio¬ 
lently, the nostrils dilated, but the membrane not much injected ; 
the respiratory murmur on auscultation was violent, and the 
body, legs, and neck had severe spasmodic twitchings every 
three or four minutes, which shook her as if she was suddenly 
startled. There was no alteration in the eye; she took n-otice of 
every thing going on around her, and drank a little water, often 
shaking her lips in it after drinking. I bled her to the amount 
of four quarts. The blood presented a considerable buffy coat. 
I then gave pulv. antim. 3ii, tart, antim. 3iss, nitre 3iiu> 
gruel, and op. ^ss, in a small ball. I proposed blistering the 
sides, which the owner objected to, thinking it was only founder, 
and saying that he would rather see her dead than marked on 
the sides by blisters. With great reluctance I consented to defer 
it until morning, when, if she was no better, I was to have li¬ 
berty to blister her. On the next morning she was worse ; the 
pulse 80, respiration 60, and, at intervals of about four minutes, 
so uncommonly violent, that the flanks heaved like a pair of bel¬ 
lows, the nostrils were dilated to their utmost extent, and she 
seemed as if she would suddenly fall down and die; but this 
was succeeded again by a few minutes of quiet. I applied a 
large blister to each side, and along the sternum, and gave pulv. 
antim. 3 ij, tart, antim. 3 i, nitre ^ij, in gruel, the dose to be repeated 
in four hours. I also ordered clysters, and gruel to drink. 
I saw her again in the afternoon; the blisters were acting 
well: there was no appearance of purging : she was breathing in 
the same way, but, if possible, more laboriously; pulse 84. I 
look two quarts of blood. The spasmodic affection had ceased 
