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patient, allowing occasional intervals whilst giving this medicine, 
and never have as yet witnessed but the very best effects. The 
following is one of the numerous cases which has occurred in my 
practice, shewing the beautiful efficacy of cantharides. 
A chesnut mare, five years oid, the property of Mr. T. H. Ward, 
Wolverhampton, became my patient on the 11th March, 1831. 
She appeared blotched about the back and near shoulder, from 
serum under the skin, besides which the groom had observed in¬ 
testinal worms voided by her; and I, knowing her to have been 
well fed with corn and doing little work, suspected a morbid 
habit of body to be present, and accordingly administered a mild 
purge of calomel and aloes on the evening of the 12th. 
13th. —Purging moderately. 
14 th. —Bowels set. I see no more of her until the 21st, when 
Mr. Ward desires my attendance : I found her with a considerable 
swelling of the submaxillary gland, on the near side, hot and 
painful to the touch ; with loss of appetite,,or rather neglecting 
her food, apparently from pain in the jaw. She is removed to 
my stables ; takes an aperient ball, and a poultice of fine bran or 
sharps is applied to the tumour. 
23 d. —The tumuor has suppurated; it is lanced; pus is dis¬ 
charged freely. 
25 th. —Feeds still very sparingly, and bowels costive; takes a 
laxative. 
27th. —Bowels open. 
28 th. —Purges : flour gruel with prepared chalk. 
29 th. —Bowels set. Tonic balls are given up to April 2d : legs 
begin to fill; falls away rapidly, and feeds very sparingly; eats 
nothing but a little hay; refusing oats, and oats with bran. The 
ulcer healed, and swelling nearly gone. 
1 now gave her mild diuretic medicine daily, and ordered 
walking exercise, for half an hour, morning and evening: grows 
weaker ; her legs increase in size daily ; anasarcous blotches, 
like unto a rash, break out all over her body ; and the nose and 
face considerably swell from anasarcous collection, so that by 
the 10th my patient is a pitiable looking object. On examining 
the pituitary membrane, I find it spotted with red blotches, and, 
in other parts, turning of a copper colour. I was perfectly satis¬ 
fied she could not be long in this state without becoming glan- 
dered and farcied. 1 on this day commenced giving her cantharides, 
in three grain doses, with gentian and ginger, of each two drachms; 
treacle, a sufficient quantity, daily ; and ordered the groom to 
give her oats and beans in small quantities, and often ; water, in 
small quantities, seven or eight times a-day, the same with her 
hay ; to be bandaged as high as the knees and hocks with 
flannel rollers, exercised as before, and well groomed or dressed. 
