TREATED WITH QUININE. 
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cheronne breed, six years old, of a sanguine constitution, belong¬ 
ing to M. Grenet, postmaster atThoury (Eure-et-Loir), had for 
some days past had occasional fits of lassitude and depression. 
This horse during violent exercise, in which he was covered with 
sweat, was caught in a shower of rain on a cold day, and which 
immediately stopped the perspiration. On being brought into 
the stable he was seized with violent shiverings, and with intense 
pain in the head, which was easily ascertained, for on the slight¬ 
est touch about that part he evinced the greatest suffering. It 
was then he was brought to me, and these are the symptoms 
which I observed :—the horse was dull, and hung back as far as 
his halter would allow him ; his eyes were closed, his head low¬ 
ered and hot; he groaned, and appeared in great pain when his 
head was raised, and which announced a very intense inflam¬ 
mation of the head. The nasal and conjunctival membranes 
were red; pulse small, frequent, and hard; the mouth hot and 
clammy; the appetite was totally gone ; the skin was dry and 
hot; the dorsal portion of the spine stiff, and the action of the 
horse slow and embarrassed. (Acute rheumatism, or rheumatic 
fever?) —Bleeding from the saphena veins, emollient drinks, and 
clysters. 
The second day, the same symptoms ; more pain about the 
abdomen, augmented by pressure; great thirst; the tongue dry 
and coated ; a serous diarrhoea, not very copious or frequent.— 
Mucilaginous drinks, clysters composed of a decoction of linseed 
and poppy heads. 
The third day, swelling of the belly, and more intense pain ; 
the tongue dry; the pulse more frequent; a slight running of 
blood from the nose; great heat and inflammation about the 
head ; urine in small quantities.—Bleeding from the saphenas, 
mucilaginous drinks and emollient clysters. 
The fourth day, the same symptoms and the same medical treat¬ 
ment. 
The fifth day, the belly was still more swelled and painful; 
considerable watery purging; urine seldom voided, and red; 
very great dryness of the skin; the respiration slightly impeded; 
inflammation of the head ;\he epistaxis more abundant than at 
first.—Bleeding from the subcutaneous abdominal veins ; drinks 
acidulated by tartaric acid ; two emollient clysters, with the ad¬ 
dition of thirty or forty drops of laudanum in the last clyster, and 
which is not to be administered until after the animal has re¬ 
turned the first. 
On the sixth, seventh, and eighth days, little alteration. 
On the tenth day, the horse was evidently better ; the tongue 
was slightly moistened; the fur with which it is covered is 
