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AMAUROSIS FROM SUPPRESSION OF MILK. 
Amaurosis occasioned by suppression of milk. 
The 15th of September , 1824, an eight year old mare, be¬ 
longing to M. Bra—, merchant, at La Croix (Meuse). 
This mare, who suckled a colt of three weeks old, was taken 
out about eight o’clock in the morning, and did not return until 
nearly four o’clock in the afternoon. As she had been driven 
very hard, and was very much heated, she was put into the 
stable and well covered, but they abstained from giving her any 
thing to drink until she was cooler. A few moments however 
after they had left her, this animal, whose teats were gorged 
with milk, escaped and ran to drink at a mill-pond, to which 
she was accustomed to go. Having returned to the stable, she 
was seized with shiverings and then slight colic pains, which 
lasted a little while. The next day the teats were swelled, hard, 
and painful, and there was an enlargement under the belly which 
extended from the udder to the chest: the animal looked dull, 
her head hung down, and she would not eat. They tried to 
milk her, but the milk came with difficulty, and had the colour 
and consistence of pus. The persons who had the care of her 
rubbed the swelling with emollient lotions, and administered 
clysters of a decoction of mallows, and gave her only chaff and 
white water. About four o’clock in the afternoon the patient 
appeared more lively, and began to eat: the udder, although 
still hard, was not so painful; the swelling was diminished ; but 
it was perceived that the sight was singularly imperfect, although 
the eyes appeared very clear. 
On the next day the swelling under the belly had quite sub¬ 
sided ; the teats were no longer hard or painful; they were flabby, 
and gave no milk. The sight was completely gone. It was 
then that I was called in. The milk was dried up, and the teats 
contained only a little serous fluid, so that they were compelled 
to wean the colt. As for the eyes, they were affected with an 
amaurosis, against which all the efforts of art were fruitless. 
Amaurosis following an apoplectic fit. 
March 2 6th, 1825.—A two-year old colt, in good condition, 
belonging to M. T—, of Heudicourt (Meuse). 
I arrived about, nine o’clock in the morning, and found the 
colt lying on his right side, almost motionless, in which position 
he had remained nearly four hours, without power to raise him¬ 
self : the respiration was laborious, the nostrils dilated, the 
pituitary membrane of a deep red colour, and gorged with blood ; 
the traces of blood round the wings of the nose shewed that 
there had been a nasal haemorrhage a very little while before. 
There was laborious heaving of the flanks, and the whole 
surface of the body was very hot; there were partial sweats on 
