A CASK OF GASTRITIS. 
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M‘Nab, of Cupar, in Fife. This was also an old and inveterate 
case, and had been under the treatment of some person in the 
neighbourhood for a considerable time. I proceeded with this 
in the same manner as the former case, and left him under the 
care of a very respectable country practitioner, with proper di¬ 
rections, who, in the course of a very few weeks, sent me the 
gratifying intelligence of the perfect recovery of my patient. 
A CASE OF GASTRITIS. 
By Mr. W. C. Spooner, Blandford. 
In July last, I was sent for at night to attend a mare, belong¬ 
ing to a neighbouring gentleman, that I understood had been ill 
four or five days. She presented an exceedingly dull and stu¬ 
pefied appearance ; her eyes were suffused with tears, eyelids 
swollen and nearly closed; mouth hot; faeces rather hard, and 
cased in mucus; abdomen somewhat enlarged; pulse 55, and 
oppressed. The mare was full of flesh ; had been taken up from 
grass about three weeks previous, and had been worked and fed 
with corn, without having had any physic treatment. Venesec¬ 
tion lb. xii, aloes 3 vii, and a fever ball composed of digitalis, nitre, 
and tartarized antimony, ordered to be given every four hours. 
2d day. —The dull and heavy appearance of the mare is en¬ 
tirely gone—the physic has not acted—the fseces are voided in 
small quantities ; they are hard, and accompanied by much mucus 
—abdomen still extended ; pulse 68 . Venesection lb. viii ; oily 
injection every six hours; fever ball continued, and linseed ad¬ 
ministered every four hours : stimulating liniment to be rubbed 
on the abdomen. I saw her again in the evening, but she was 
no better. 
3 dday. —The mare this morning is in much the same dull 
state as on the evening I first saw her; pulse 60. Venesection 
lb. viii ; abdomen blistered : other treatment continued. I 11 
the evening, the breathing, which till now had been tranquil, was 
much accelerated. Physic begins to act. 
4 th day. —The patient much worse; pulse 94; breathing very 
quick, and extremities cold : but the mare looks lively about the 
head. In the evening the pulse was 100, and the symptoms al¬ 
together worse. The mare died during the night. 
Postmortem examination. —I considered the disease, from the 
commencement, as affecting the alimentary canal, and therefore 
was not surprised at finding the stomach excessively inflamed, 
and a thick deposit of coagulated blood between its coats, affect- 
