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CARDITIS. 
pericardium was slightly inflamed, and a portion of the pleura 
on the left side. The lungs and the contents of the abdomen 
presented no unnatural appearance. The brain, Mr. C. Small 
imagined, was rather softer than usual. 
CASE II. 
June 22d, 1835.—A brown mare, aged, with a foal at her 
foot, the property of Captain McKillop, was sent to Cogry, near 
Doah, to be covered: she had been let out in a field all night, 
and was observed to be ill in the niorning; when brought into 
the house, she appeared to be griped; frequently lay down, 
but never attempted to roll. In the course of the day she be¬ 
came frantic, and knocked herself about in such a way as to 
render it necessary to remove the foal for its safety. Dr. Haw¬ 
thorn, of the Doah Dispensary, a veterinary amateur, and no 
mean judge of horseflesh, saw the mare soon after she was 
attacked; and though above ten miles from a veterinary surgeon, 
he, in a manner becoming a member of the brother profession 
and a gentleman, declined administering any medicine, or other¬ 
wise interfering with the veterinarian’s duty, and sent off for me 
immediately. When I arrived, I found the mare in pretty much 
the same state as I did the subject of the first case,—sweating 
profusely, palpitation of the heart equally as violent and loud, 
pulse 70 and hard. There was a peculiar twitching of the muscles 
of the face and neck: she frequently walked round the box in 
a listless manner, and would push down any thing in her 
way: the eye, betokening anxiety and distress, was often and 
wofully cast around to the affected side, on which she sometimes 
rested her muzzle. What shameful apathy would they evince, 
who can behold such symptoms as these without attempting to 
give the sufferer relief, and yet with how little hope of success!— 
but 
“So long as life its term extends, 
Hope’s bless’d dominion never ends.” 
The indication in this case was evidently to bleed, and that 
largely; I accordingly opened both jugular veins at once, and 
caused the blood to flow till the patient staggered from its loss. 
After pinning up the orifices, I administered a bottle of castor 
oil, with no small difficulty, and a saline clyster; she was then 
well rubbed down, and fresh litter thickly strewed in the box. 
Nine, p.m. —The beating of the heart is less violent; pulse 
softer, but weak: the patient is more tranquil, and appears in 
every way better. V. S. vi lb., R pulv. digitalis tart. ant. 
^iss, nit. pot. ^ij, molasses q. s. divide into six balls, and 
give one every four hours. She was ordered to be disturbed 
