ABSCESS IN THE THIGH, &C. 495 
Sth »—Extremely costive ; pulse quick and weak. Give aloes 
jiv. Enemas injected. 
9M.—Still costive; appetite improved. Give ol. castor one 
pint. 
lOt/f .—Bowels relaxed ; pulse and respiration less frequent. 
13M.—Perfectly recovered. 
ABSCESS IN THE THIGH, COMMUNICATING WITH 
THE STIFLE JOINT. 
By the same. 
June l^thy 1834.—A foal had been lame about three weeks : 
the owner, fancying he was lame in the acetabulum, applied some 
white oils, which produced a very high degree of inflammation, 
and increased the lameness tenfold. Two or three days after 
the oils were applied I saw him, when his pulse was weak and 
120 in number. The eyes had a ghastly appearance; continued 
grating of the teeth ; tongue furred ; the thigh was prodigiously 
swollen inside and out, very hot, tense, and painful. The foal 
could not walk nor sustain the least weight on his feet; the 
limb was continually flexed. I ordered a laxative and fomenta¬ 
tions to the thigh : on the following morning he died. 
On dissecting off the gracilis muscle, an immense quantity of 
thick pus escaped from the cellular membrane underneath it. 
After removing the vastus internus, more made its exit: on 
farther dissection an orifice was discovered going right into the 
stifle joint, through the capsular ligament. When the orifice 
was enlarged, about a quart of pus was found in the joint; the 
matter had insinuated itself halfway down the tibia. There was 
a large quantity of pus contiguous to the femur : when it was 
all removed, these bones were quite bare. The cause of the lame¬ 
ness is unknown. 
INCONTINENCE OF URINE IN A MARE. 
By Mr. B. Ball, Launceston. 
A CASE of this disease occurred a week or two since in my 
practice, in a mare, the property of a respectable farmer near 
Launceston. She was perceived to dribble away her urine from 
the vulva, involuntarily, and in very small quantities, which 
excoriated the legs and thighs as it came from her. I was 
sent for to see her. 1 examined the bladder per rectum, and 
